Freezing to death on the EU's border by NickBeakeBBC published on 2021-09-24T06:39:38Z The BBC has obtained first-hand accounts from migrants who claim they’ve been illegally deported from the European Union by Polish border troops. EU members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania have each declared a state of emergency amid a surge of thousands of people trying to cross from Belarus. The EU has accused the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of using migrants as weapons - by luring them in and then sending them towards EU countries. Poland has banned aid workers and journalists from its border zone - but our Europe Correspondent Nick Beake travelled to the area and has just sent this report.