Over one million refugees, migrants entered Europe in 2015

Germany has seen around 1 million migrants arrive this year, but that figure includes large numbers of people from eastern European countries who could be sent back.

“Migration must be legal, safe and secure for all – both for the migrants themselves and countries that will become their new homes”, said Swing in a press release.

That death toll has increased after 11 more migrants drowned when a boat capsized off Turkey’s western coast overnight.

The 162-country intergovernmental agency says the arrival of more than 4,100 people into Greece on Monday put the annual total more than 1 million.

This file photo shows rescue workers on a jet ski helping refugees as their boat sinks off the Greek island of Lesbos on October 30, 2015. When children are dying on our doorstep we need to take bolder action. “There can be no bigger priority”.

United Nations Director-General Michael Moller says the crisis is “outpacing” the humanitarian effort.

While numbers for next year are impossible to predict, Reuters reported: “The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR is planning for arrivals to continue at a similar rate in 2016”.

In his annual speech before Parliament Tuesday, Ivanov accused the European Union of having a dysfunctional system for distributing refugees among member states. Hungary, in particular, angered its neighbors by building a fence to keep people out, setting off a chaotic rush to find alternate routes through countries ill-equipped to handle the influx. A further 190,000 people now reside in Germany whose applications for asylum have been denied, and live in constant fear of deportation.

The Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, which killed 129 people, triggered concern that extremist militants could enter Europe amid the thousands of arriving migrants and prompted calls for nations to tighten their borders.

“Lebanon, with a population of less than 5 million, is hosting more than a million, and water-poor Jordan is giving 10 million liters of water every day to the million in their refugee camps”. Only about 34,000 of the migrants arrived by land, the IOM reports.

Eritreans are running from a life of repression and abject poverty, fleeing “one of the poorest countries in the world and a closed and highly securitized state under an authoritarian government”, according to a report by the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat in Nairobi a year ago. The DHA agency said the seven survivors were Syrians and the boat was heading to the Greek island of Samos. Under police guard and surrounded by barbed wire, refugees are kept in squalid conditions. So, there is a significant majority of the people on the move who are refugees or would have a very strong claim at least to global protection.”.

French police forces attempt to disperse migrants and refugees on December 17, 2015 on one of the road of the Eurotunnel in Calais.