Federal police have pulled two suspected smugglers out of circulation on the German-Polish border near Görlitz.
Both men came from Ukraine and were provisionally arrested, said the Federal Police Inspectorate in Ludwigsdorf on Tuesday.
In addition, the officers found a total of 32 refugees who had been illegally brought to Germany on Monday.
Görlitz - Most of them come from Yemen and Iraq.
For some time now, the Federal Police have been registering an increasing number of illegal border crossings on the German-Polish border and are linking this to the situation in Belarus.
The governments in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are accusing the Belarusian ruler, Alexander Lukashenko, of bringing refugees from crisis regions to the EU's external border in an organized manner.
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Lukashenko announced at the end of May that Minsk would no longer prevent migrants from continuing to travel to the EU - in response to tightened Western sanctions against his country.
Since then, reports of attempted illegal border crossings at the EU's external borders with Belarus have increased.
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