Europe's Migrant Crisis Isn't Over

Two years ago, Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy photographed lying face down on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum, stirred the conscience of many Europeans. That moment of guilt and shame already seems past. We’ve barely noticed that since Kurdi’s death at least 8,500 people, many of them unescorted children, have died or disappeared while attempting to cross the Mediterranean, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency.

The Italian government has started to work with the Libyan coast guard as well as tribes in southern Libya to block the flow of migrants and refugees. Italy’s neighbors -- France, Switzerland and Austria -- in turn have beefed up border security, with police sending migrants back to Italy. The number of refugees arriving in Europe has dramatically decreased this summer.