Migrants crossing Mediterranean top 100,000 this year
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A new report says 102,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far in 2015.
The International Organization on Migration, which released the numbers along with the United Nations, says the numbers are slightly ahead of last year's count, but it expects a surge in new arrivals later this year.
MPR News' Tom Crann looked at why the number of migrants willing to take life-threatening journeys are rising in both Europe and Asia and what the international community is trying to do to stem the tide.
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