The crisis has put an enormous economic and political strain on those countries. In late 2014. I traveled to Jordan where I visited a U.N. refugee processing center. I also met with Jordans Foreign Minister. U.N. representatives. and American military personnel stationed in Amman. Even a year ago. it was clear that the humanitarian crisis was straining these host countries and that there was no end in sight. In recent months. the crisis has accelerated. The steady stream of refugees fleeing Syria has become a flood. and that flood has swept across Europe. Every day refugees set out on a journey of hundreds of miles from Syria to the Turkish coast. When they arrive. they are met by human smugglers who charge $1.000 a head for a place on a shoddy. overloaded. plastic raft that is floated out to sea. hopefully in the direction of one of the Greek islands. I visited one of those islands last month.
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