U.S. bishops could learn something from their Polish brethren.
Poland’s new progressive political leadership is complaining to the Vatican that the nation’s Catholic bishops are speaking too forcefully against mass immigration. During a pilgrimage to the Jasna Góra monastery last week, the retired Bishop Wiesław Mering of Wlocławek spoke against mass immigration in a homily, highlighting the government’s complicity in what is quickly becoming a crisis. Mering said, “Our borders are threatened from both the west and the east,” referring to Germany, Belarus, and Ukraine. The bishop also averred that the Polish government “is ruled by political gangsters.”
Germany began tightening its immigration controls in 2023 and has, more recently, been “deporting” illegal immigrants by simply dropping them across the border into Poland. Conservative-aligned Polish President Andrzej Duda called on left-of-center Prime Minister Donald Tusk to address the situation with Germany, saying, “It is a pity the Polish government is not reacting to the pushing of migrants from Germany into Poland.”
While Tusk and his deputies have insisted that Poland’s border security agents are addressing the illegal immigration issue, Poles have formed citizen patrols, known as the Border Defense Movement, traveling in groups of several hundred, to ensure that Germany’s illegal immigration problem does not become Poland’s.
Former Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak, a member of the conservative Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość or PiS) party, warned, “Poland’s western border is ceasing to exist!” He continued, “Illegal migrants are regularly being transferred to us from Germany, and Tusk’s government is pretending that nothing is happening.” He added, “Scenes from border towns are beginning to resemble those from Berlin, Paris or Stockholm — groups of illegal migrants sleeping on benches, in parks, wandering around.”
Bishop Antoni Długosz, auxiliary bishop emeritus of Częstochowa, also spoke against the burgeoning illegal immigration crisis facing Poland. Długosz asserted that “for decades, the Islamization of Europe has been progressing through mass immigration,” adding that “illegal immigrants … create serious problems in the countries they arrive in.”
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