Deportation of Draft-Age Ukrainians: Horała Slams PiS Proposal as a Terrible Paradox

During a PiS convention, Tobiasz Bocheński proposed deporting draft-age Ukrainians not working legally, drawing sharp criticism from Marcin Horała and the Ministry of the Interior.

PiS Convention Proposal

During a Thursday PiS convention, Tobiasz Bocheński announced that one of the first decisions of a Law and Justice government—if the party won the election—would be the deportation of draft-age Ukrainians who do not work legally in Poland.

Horała Expresses Utter Astonishment

In a Friday interview with Radio ZET, Marcin Horała admitted that this postulate filled him with absolute amazement. He asked directly why deport illegal migrants from Bangladesh, Congo, or Ghana instead of focusing purely on the illegality of stay rather than nationality.

Horała assessed the PiS idea as paradoxically beneficial for Ukraine and disadvantageous for Poland. He argued that Ukrainians are a culturally close group ready to immediately boost the Polish labor market, making the expulsion of someone temporarily out of work worse than letting a migrant from a completely different cultural circle take the place. He added that fulfilling such a demand serves to root anti-Ukrainian emotion for purely political electoral mobilization.

The politician stated that it is a terrible paradox, fulfilling Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s big dream, acting as a very pro-Ukrainian and very anti-Polish move because someone temporarily not working can soon work and build Poland’s GDP from a culturally close country.

MSWiA Position and Duszczyk Criticism

In the “Jeden na jeden” program on TVN24, Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Duszczyk tore the idea apart, assessing it as absolutely idiotic and capable of solving nothing. He emphasized that there is practically no one to deport, noting that around 95 percent of draft-age Ukrainians work legally in Poland.

Duszczyk stated that any potential decision could only concern wounded soldiers undergoing rehabilitation in Poland and fathers caring for children with disabilities, describing the PiS idea as purely political and disgusting.

He also pointed out that temporary protection for draft-age men and some women ceased across the European Union on July 30, making the PiS postulate an attempt to copy an EU-implemented solution merely to fuel an anti-Ukrainian narrative.