Poles are gradually getting use to having foreigners amongst their midst - chinese and Korean tourists, Indian and s. Asian it workers, Portuguese and Spanish senior level bank workers, Ukrainians working in agriculture and restaurants, etc. However they don't want to be told by someone thousands of kilometers away how to run their country, who they should let in and not let in, etc. Also they don't want to have terrorist attacks. Looks like yet another one occurred in France. To my understanding there will be a referendum taking place if Poland is fined for not taking in migrants (I still don't understand why they're being fined when they let in some million plus ukranians as well as a handful of Chechen and Georgian asylum seekers. Imo, telling someone to accept people of a certain race or religion is racist. So ukranians fleeing war and poverty don't count but Ghanaians, afghanis, Iraqis etc do? I don't quite see the difference - only a small percent in both cases are fleeing war and the majority are economic migrants). Most poles seem to be open to foreigners but are weary of those from certain areas as the terrorist attacks from the past few years were majority Sunnis. Its understandable but if the government did in fact take in their share of the quota they have to at least tell the population that these new comers from the m.e. will be vetted, monitored, and provided services like polish language services, perhaps an entry level job, schooling, etc.
The thing is the majority of the Muslim migrants that came to Poland and czechy left for Germany due to their very generous welfare system. However some did stay. I read about an Iraqi Christian family that migrated to poland, the father works for Lot, and generally they seem to be assimilating.
If Poland does take in Muslim migrants they have to be vetted, assimilated and spread evenly throughout the country so it's not a free for all and special urban zones like in France dont pop up. Police should keep tabs on them too so that terrorist cells don't pop up. Call it discriminatory or whatever but if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't care. If I moved to Poland I wouldn't care if the cops showed up to make sure there's no ak47s or explosives in the closet. That's just me though.. Others may perceive it as a gross privacy violation, discriminating against new comers, etc.
From what I've gathered from most poles I've spoken to here is that they'd prefer to pay the 2 bil eu fine than take middle eastern migrants in. Again though i don't understand why there's even this debate. Surely at least 5k out of the 1 mil plus ukranians that came in were from donetsk dobass luhansk and are legit refugees rather than economic migrants.
Well at the end of the day it's polish peoples country and the majority will decide what course the country will take and who will lead them.