Steve, we evidently didn't read the same news this morning. Lukashenko is funneling all of those people back to the EU (as you said) - but this isn't like the US and South America stuff, this is like the US and Mexico or the US and Canada - the borders of a sovereign nation. Not sure if you consider the EU a sovereign nation or a loose affiliation, whatever, but you used to be a part of it - as is Poland - on opposite sides, yes, but still, a part of it. I'd think there's a little appreciation for the old political affiliation. Here's a map. Netherlands, Germany, and Poland are between you and Belarus. 1,300 miles. It's nearly 2,000 from the southern most point of Texas to the northernmost city in Colombia, in South Ameria.

West Accuses Belarus of Orchestrating Migrant Crisis at Polish Border

Poland has massed thousands of troops on its border with Belarus to keep out Middle Eastern migrants who have set up camp there, as Western officials accuse Belarus’s leader of intentionally trying to create a new migrant crisis in Europe.

The standoff along the razor-wire fence separating the two countries has intensified a long-simmering confrontation between Belarus, a repressive former Soviet republic, and the European Union, which includes Poland.

Western officials say that President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus is allowing asylum seekers from the Middle East into his country by the thousands and then funneling them westward toward Poland and the E.U., and has escalated that strategy this week. They say he is retaliating against sanctions imposed after his disputed 2020 election victory.

The sharp increase in tensions has rattled European officials, with images of desperate migrants evoking the refugee crisis of 2015. The confrontation with Belarus, a close Russian ally, also raises new security concerns.

E.U. leaders are scrambling to strike a balance between protecting the bloc’s external borders and preventing a worsening humanitarian crisis among the migrants camped along the edge of a forest in freezing weather.

On Tuesday, Polish authorities said, at least 3,000 people who hoped to enter the European Union were gathered near the Kuznica border crossing, near the Belarusian city of Grodno. Hundreds could be seen camped just feet away from the border fence in video footage provided by both sides. In response to the growing numbers, Poland increased its forces in the area to more than 17,000 soldiers, border guards and police, Polish officials said.

The US has it's own awful way of dealing with migrants and refugees. At least the camps are a bit warmer, but that is no benefit. It's just that the EU camps and the advance of winter are in the news now. Trump broke a lot of things here, and it is taking Biden a long time to fix them; Trumps response to the pandemic is part of the reason it's taking so long.

I'm not sure where this was going, but I think it's time to shift back to discussing Trump.