The year of 2015 witnessed the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This crisis had developed from displaced people who sought a new life after losing their homes from civil warfare. Around 4.1 million Syrian refugees fled their country which has been annihilated by a civil war that began more than four years ago.

Syrian refugees have used migrant ships to cross the Mediterranean Sea along with refugees from Libya who have been seeking a new life in Europe. To help those refugees who have been seeking asylum, European Commission President Jean Juncker demanded that European Union members accept a plan to distribute 160 thousand asylum seekers. So far this year alone, 150 thousand migrants have crossed the borders into Hungary. Not only this, but 800 thousand migrants have been predicted to enter Germany by the end of 2015. This increasing migrant population in European countries had forced Germany, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia to tighten their border control. EU nations have also closed and shut down the railways to other countries. In addition, Denmark suspended trains leading to and from Germany last week.

Additionally, these migrants who have attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea have died trying. More than 2500 migrants this year alone died from this attempt. Off a Greek island on September 13, 2015, 34 refugees, including four infants and 11 boys and girls, drowned when their wooden boat overturned and sank.

Not only have European countries granted asylum to refugees, but the United States also did. In a similar fashion, the White House announced on September 10 that the United States would accept 10 thousand Syrian refugees in the next year. However, the International Rescue Committee regarded this number as inadequate to successfully cope with the refugee crisis and called on the United States to take 65,000 Syrians by the end of this year.

Even though vast numbers of migrants have entered Europe, the most densely populated refugee areas in the world have been Lebanon and Jordan. Lebanon has held 1.1 million refugees while Jordan has held 629,000 refugees in refugee camps. Both of these countries have been hosting more than one million Syrian refugees each. In addition, Turkey hosts 1.9 million Syrian refugees.

Furthermore, this migrant crisis has forced diplomats of EU countries to come together to decide on a solution. If no solution will be met in order to balance out the number of refugees in each country, then those refugees who risked their own and their children’s lives to cross the Mediterranean will go to waste. Clearly, the U.S. will need to admit more refugees into the country since the U.S. is known as the country for remedying every evil.