Problems and solutions to the international migrant crisis

Editor's Note: For more information on refugees, migrants, and internally displaced persons, click here, and consider signing up for “This Week in Foreign Policy,” a weekly roundup of the most important stories and analysis from the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. on December 4, 2000, the United Nations declared December 18 as International Migrants Day. The U.N. did so to recognize the increasing number of migrants around the world and to reaffirm member nations’ commitments to migrants’ freedoms and human rights. Near…