What a great idea!
5. Migrants say Belarusians took them to the E.U. border and supplied them with wire cutters to get in.
The sudden surge of Middle Eastern migrants was hardly an accident. Belarus loosened its visa rules and increased flights by the state-owned airline, funneled migrants to its frontiers and gave them directions on how to cross over into the E.U. — even handing out tools to cut through border fences.
Story #3 in The NY Times Thi9s Morning.