poland s government has been rallying european governments and aid for ukraine, and it s being a linchpin of western solidarity against russia. here s the thing, it wasn t a foregone conclusion that poland would be such an eager partner with the united states and europe against russia. in recent years, poland was more likely to be fighting with europe as its right wing government has been rolling back pullen s very hard won democratic reforms. less than one month before russia s invasion of ukraine, colin s prime minister attended a conference of far-right, largely pro putin european leaders. and yet, since the invasion, poland s government has turned out to be perhaps the loudest voice of european solidarity against vladimir putin. maybe they remembered soviet troops massing on their own borders 40 years ago, and their own solidarity movement, ultimately facing them down or maybe it was the horror and brutality of russia s invasion
in the small town of uvalde, texas, where detention place is to blame. they maintained only migrants with no criminal record can stay, however they say there is one problem with that. the border patrol is doing the best they can, they are running records checks against the databases they have access to, primarily databases in the u.s. and they are coming from around the world. if we don t have them in a u.s. database the records check is all but useless. numbers show about 165,000 migrant encounters for the month of february, more than three times the number from two years ago, john. and it s up 64% from last february. john: and more on this with tom homan in the next hour. thank you, fox news alert, warsaw, poland, president biden touched down a short time ago.
eyes and seen their own homes and communities destroyed by russian aggression here. the president will be talking to aid workers who have been so key in trying to help these refugees and now numbering in the millions who need to have food, and shelter and new documents. all of the things that can make this temporary transition a little easier after so much trauma and heart ache. the president will be doing that as well. here in poland there are key ally relationships to tend to as well. certainly poland has been apart of the discussion about military aid to ukraine and also we know that russia and poland have their own history of tensions so there is great concern about any vulnerabilities poland may face if russia had any interests in going beyond ukraine and that s a big question mark in this war. the president will also deliver an address tomorrow that ll wrap
you know this, david. being here, so many refugees from ukraine here in poland. the majority in fact who have fled that country. the president is going to come face-to-face with the inhumanity of this crisis. we are also learning that tomorrow the president is going to give what aides call a major speech. cecelia vega traveling with the president. thank you. as you heard her report, tomorrow president biden will witness the humanitarian emergency playing out in poland. more than 2 million ukrainians in poland alone. tonight here, the orphans of ukraine, without a parent even before the war began. we document their extraordinary journey. they are witnesses to war, and what they want to world to know. reporter: it s been one month and one day since this war began in ukraine. leading to the other emergency here, the humanitarian crisis. tonight, more than 10 million ukrainians are now displaced from their homes. our trips here to report on
was not destroyed. it operated underground through years of repression, until it burst back into the open in the late 19 80s. and it forced the government into something that had never happened in the history of communist eastern europe. free and fair elections. the unthinkable was happening before their eyes. poles relished every result. added to a crushing defeat of thep reviously unquestioned masters of poland. the communist party. it is one step in our escape from served, i m from communism. solidarity computed that it is candidates would completely control the polish senate, and win every seat the other house in poland s way. we all must prevail poland. no matter who won with their first step towards democracy s defense successfully take, and polls descended on the chinese embassy to protest the repression in that country. they had confronted their communist party at the ballot box. and not a single drop of blood had been shed.