Shocking Scope of the EU Migrant Crisis

This infographic from BBC News captures the almost unfathomable scale of the migrant crisis in Europe.

To put those numbers in context, the UNHCR estimates that the United States received 121, 200 asylum claims in 2014. Yet Germany is .04 times the size of the United States and has 1/4 of our population.

Last month, some 107,500 migrants crossed the EU’s borders. Let’s put that in perspective. 2014, the year of our national freak-out over unaccompanied minors coming from Central America, saw some 62,977 children were apprehended by CBP. That’s 63,000 over an entire year. A third less than Europe has experience this month.

This is a crisis. And Europe doesn’t currently have a coordinated response.

-KitJ