Poland’s president has condemned the government’s contentious plan to suspend the right to asylum for irregular migrants, calling it a “fatal mistake.”

Members of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's coalition government have expressed concerns about plans to suspend the right to asylum, amid unease that the measures may break the constitution and international law.

Human and civil rights groups are expressing concern after Poland’s leader said he would suspend the right to asylum because of its alleged abuse by eastern neighbors Belarus and Russia