Poland to Extend Control at Belarus Border Amid Migrant Rout

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Migrants in a camp on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region. Nov. 12.

Photographer: Ramil Nasibulin/AFP/Getty Images

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Poland is seeking to extend limits on free movement at the Belarus border as it expects a migrant crisis that’s prompted concern from U.S. President Joe Biden to drag on for months.

The government is readying rules that would replace a state of emergency in a 3-kilometer (1.9 mile) wide corridor along the 418-kilometer border with Belarus, Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski told broadcaster RMF.