Poland’s president has condemned the government’s contentious plan to suspend the right to asylum for irregular migrants, calling it a “fatal mistake.”

Poland's president condemned a government plan to temporarily suspend the right to asylum on Wednesday, saying it would harm members of the Belarusian opposition fleeing repression in their own country.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has defended his country’s planned tough stance against migrants at the border with Belarus. At Poland’s eastern border, it is not a case of refugees appearing spontaneously and randomly,