There are already legitimate, serious concerns, for example with the detention centers](https://euobserver.com/migration/154320), where Poland has been arbitrarily detaining Middle Eastern and African immigrants and refugees crossing the border and subjecting them to humiliating strip searches and severe beatings. They are detained in horrendous conditions.

Detention camps are surrounded by high fences topped with barbed wire; cameras detect movement and border guards patrol the area on quad bikes. Detainees are not allowed lace-up shoes and manicure kits, and can only use mobile phones without a camera and access to the internet. When some migrants are moved to another camp or brought into hospital, a convoy must escort them. Border guards speak in the media about “public security” and technologies that “prevent escapes” of “unverified people”.

Black and Arab immigrants are being routinely beaten and abused by border guards, both in Belarus and Poland.

The lice, cold and loneliness suffered by Rosa and others in these camps can be traced back to ministerial acts passed over the years since the victory of the anti-immigration Law and Justice (PiS) party in 2015.

In 2017, legislation was introduced that put bars on the windows and allowed containers to be used to house extra inmates in the detention camps. In 2020, nutritional norms for the detained were lowered by 25 per cent for children and pregnant women, and 35 per cent for everyone else, setting the standard of 2.70 euros per adult.

The majority of Poles seem quite okay with the treatment of refugees. It doesn't take much to dehumanize groups of people and then use fear as a justification for doing really bad things.