In 2025, 10,000 foreigners were sent back from Poland, compared to 3,000 in 2023, and the first half of 2026 brought 5.64,000 deportations according to data of the Border defender quoted by the media. The Ministry of abroad Affairs indicates that the most many group are Ukrainians. The conclusion is simple: the state began to enforce its own law more.
A leap that cannot be silenced
In 2025, 10,000 foreigners were sent back from Poland, compared to 3,000 in 2023, and the first half of 2026 brought 5.64,000 deportations according to data of the Border defender quoted by the media. The Ministry of abroad Affairs indicates that the most many group are Ukrainians. The conclusion is simple: the state began to enforce its own law more.
The Interia, citing information from the Ministry of Interior and Administration, reported that the statistic of completed return decisions are expanding leaps. According to this data 3 000 people were deported in 2023 and 10 000 in 2025.. This is not an administrative detail. It is simply a signal that the state is starting to respond to the real expectations of citizens: the right to reside in Poland is to be due to legality, work and respect for public order.
Ukrainians without collective guilt, state without helplessness
Deputy Minister Maciej Duszczyk pointed out in an interview with Interia that Ukrainians are the largest group among the deportees, due to the fact that there are the most of them in Poland. That conviction must be read precisely. It's not about collective work and it's not allowed to be added here. It is about the scale of attendance, and with a large scale there is besides a increasing number of cases in which the services gotta respond.
Polish aid to war refugees from Ukraine was huge. Polish families, local governments and the state suffered a burden that many Western elites did not even want to touch. But hospitality cannot mean giving up control. Those who violate the law, abuse residence or ignore an administrative decision must have consequences. It's the minimum gravity of the state.
Earlier dispute over Ukrainian deportations showed how rapidly part of the debate attempts to turn a simple rule of order into a subject of diplomatic nervousness. However, Poland is not a hotel without regulations. It is simply a national state which has a work to guarantee the safety of its own citizens first.
Flights, funds and bill to the taxpayer
Money.pl, citing the Republic of Poland and the Border defender Headquarters, stated that in the first half of 2026 Poland deported 5.64,000 foreigners, i.e. 28 percent more than a year earlier. In March, 1.15,000 people were sent by air and in April 1.13,000 were sent by air. In this data you can see not individual actions, but a permanent procedure.
Costs don't disappear. any return operations support Frontex and EU funds, but the organization of deportations is transport, documents, care, accommodation, interpreters and the work of officers. erstwhile the country of origin does not pay or the execution of costs is ineffective, the bill may return to the Polish budget. I mean to the taxpayer.
Therefore, talking about deportations is not just a conversation about foreigners. It is simply a conversation about the Polish wallet, public order and the border between hospitality and naivety. Left-liberal language likes to blur this border in soft formulas. A country that takes itself seriously can't do that.
The law must be clear and applied
The most crucial regulation is that legal stay and honest work cannot be treated the same as breaking the law or ignoring a return decision. This discrimination is fair and necessary. It protects honest foreigners and protects Poles from the effects of policy without control.
Discussion on deportations of the unemployed Ukrainians she showed another problem: politicians are happy to talk with slogans, but the state operates through regulations, decisions and execution. If the procedures are besides slow or punctured, they request to be repaired. If the service has tools, you gotta usage them.
Poland has the right to anticipate any guest to comply with the law. It besides has a work to make it clear that public order is not an addition to migration policy, but a foundation. Without this, all next migration wave will be a test of our sovereignty. This test must be passed in Polish: hard, legally and without complexes.
Source: To Things, Interia, Money.pl, Border Guard.
Source: To Things
