"Over 2,000 attempts have been thwarted, while almost 900 illegal immigrants have been detained," the Polish Border Guard (DG) announced on Twitter on Wednesday.
On Tuesday alone, 59 individuals, mainly from Iraq and Tajikistan, were detained after crossing illegally from Belarus, the agency reported, while more than 100 attempts at unlawful entry were disrupted, it said.
The previous day the Polish border service said it reported 126 such attempts and detained 31 foreign nationals, among them 18 Iraqis and nine Somali citizens.
The announcement comes as a rapidly growing number of illegal migrants, from countries including Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, has appeared at the boundary between Belarus and the European Union over the past few months, according to officials.
Both Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have accused Minsk of supporting the unlawful entry of these people into their countries.
Most of the migrants had been heading for Lithuania until Vilnius adopted regulations that allowed border officials to turn them back to Belarus.
Poland and Latvia have now become the main immediate destinations.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP