Surge in migration throws Greek islands back into crisis

(AP) There’s no room left at Europe’s largest refugee camp.

New arrivals on the Greek island of Lesbos have to fend for themselves outside its barbed wire perimeter — in a maze of tents, each sprayed with a number in black paint.

Afghan migrant Ismutallah Heideri lives in the “800s section,” reached by zig-zagging through washing lines, power cords precariously fanning out from a circuit box, and children playing barefoot on the stony ground.

He has spent the last 30 nights curled up inside a small tent kept immaculately tidy with his wife, 4-year-old daughter, and two sons, who are 1 and 13.

“Nothing makes sense here,” he said in a voice that shook at times. “We are all suffering.”

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