The letter to Rubio was sent by Gregory Meeks and James Raskin, top Democratic representatives on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Judiciary Committee. The matter was reported by Reuters, which obtained the content of the letter sent on Friday.
Risk of crisis with Poland
In the opinion of the authors of the letter, the possible actions of the Deputy Secretary of State “are a serious abuse of power and disregard for legal US immigration procedures.” Democrats also stressed that granting the visa could constitute “an unprecedented level of interference in the domestic politics and judicial systems of two long-time U.S. treaty allies” — Poland and Hungary.
Democrats' questions for Rubio
Democrats asked Rubio a number of specific questions, including: whether the president himself or his closest associates were involved in the decision to issue the visa and what were the grounds for granting it. They also demanded access to correspondence and documents exchanged between Landau, the Office of Consular Affairs and US diplomatic missions in Warsaw and Budapest. They are also interested in the possible role of the US ambassador to Poland, Tom Rose.
The congressmen asked the Secretary of State to respond in writing and to appear in person before both committees by June 21. So far, neither the State Department nor the White House have responded to requests for comment.
Appeals from Minister Żurek
Żurek also recalled that the Polish side had already prepared an extradition request regarding the former minister. Minister Żurek pointed out that in the Ziobro case, the Polish side already has a provisional arrest order, although the practice of American federal courts varies.
— This is the case with Zbigniew Ziobro. But we know that the practice of federal courts varies, so the team of prosecutors will decide whether we wait until Ziobro's lawyers' appeals are heard and only then send an extradition request. We would like there to be no further formal shortcomings and for the federal courts not to return this application to us, the minister emphasized.
Charges against Zbigniew Ziobro
According to investigators' findings, Ziobro allegedly gave orders to his subordinates to violate the law in order to provide selected entities with subsidies from the Justice Fund. The prosecutor's office also accuses him of interfering in the preparation of competition offers and enabling money to be awarded to unauthorized entities.
At the end of 2025, when the Sejm agreed to the detention and temporary arrest of the former minister, and the prosecutor issued a decision to bring charges against him, Ziobro was no longer in Poland. In early 2026, the media revealed that the former prosecutor general from the period of the United Right government received international protection in Hungary during the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Escape possible via Milan
On May 10, Ziobro himself announced that he was in the USA. He assured that he did not escape from the country and that he got to the USA on the basis of a document received along with asylum granted to him by the Hungarian side.
