Europe swamped with unprecedented torrent of migrants swarming in by land and sea

March 28, 2014: In this file photo, Sub-Saharan migrants climb over a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. (AP)

Nov. 28, 2014: In this file photo, immigrants who arrived on a cargo ship from Turkey queue for meals in a basketball arena where they have been given temporary shelter in the town of Ierapetra, on the southern Greek island of Crete. (AP)

Nov. 28, 2014: In this file photo, a policeman observes the scene as immigrants who arrived aboard a cargo ship from Turkey queue for meals while others sit on bedding in a basketball arena where they have been given temporary shelter in the town of Ierapetra, on the southern Greek island of Crete. (AP)

Nov. 27, 2014: In this file photo, a baby looks out from the window of a bus after disembarking from a crippled freighter carrying hundreds of refugees trying to migrate to Europe, at the coastal Cretan port of Ierapetra, Greece. (AP)

MADRID The European Union is immersed in a full-fledged migration crisis.

Some officials are even floating the idea of a multinational border guard to deal with the hundreds of thousands arriving from war-torn countries like Syria, poor nations in Africa and non-EU neighbors like Kosovo.

With no signs the flow will let up anytime soon, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Raad al-Hussein, said Thursday that dealing with migration "cries out for more thoughtful and coordinated action" between EU countries.

"The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable," Zeid said in Geneva.

Here's a look at Europe's migration crisis:

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Europe swamped with unprecedented torrent of migrants swarming in by land and sea

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