Polish leader Tusk defends decision to suspend asylum law

FILE - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, center left, and Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, visit troops patrolling the border with Belarus, in Dubicze Cerkiewna, eastern Poland, May 29, 2024. FILE - Migrants stand behind the metal barrier border that Poland has erected along the border with Belarus, in Bialowieza Forest, May 29, 2024.

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Monday defended a plan to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as human rights and civil society organizations express concerns about the move.