Plight of migrant children captures world's attention

Abdullah Kurdi, 40, father of Syrian boys Aylan, 3, and Galip, 5, who were washed up drowned on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum on Wednesday, cries as he waits for the delivery of their bodies outside a morgue in Mugla, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015.

Alan Kurdi, left, and his brother Galib Kurdi perished, along with their mother Rehan after the small rubber boat they were in capsized during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece.

Tima Kurdi is overcome with emotion as she looks at photos of her late nephews Alan and Galib Kurdi, at her home in Coquitlam, B.C., Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015.

The body of 3-year-old Syrian Alan Kurdi was found on a Turkish beach after the small rubber boat he, his 5-year old brother Galib and their mother, Rehan, were in capsized during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece.

A young boy holds a drawing showing children under water, on Sept. 3, 2015, during a demonstration in Istanbul, after a boat carrying migrants sank as it crossed to the Greek island of Kos. Around 350,000 migrants have risked their lives since the beginning of the year making the treacherous crossing via the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, with 2,643 of them dying in the process, according to the International Organization for Migration.

A migrant lies on the track with a baby as she is detained in Bicske, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia. Many apply for asylum but quickly try to leave for richer EU countries.

A young Syrian boy cries as his father carries him up a steep hill as they walk to a border crossing on the Greek and Macedonian border Sept. 3, 2015, near Idomeni, Greece. From Idomeni migrants continue north into Macedonia. Since the beginning of 2015 the number of migrants using the so-called "Balkans route" has exploded with migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey and then travelling on through Macedonia and Serbia before entering the EU via Hungary.

A migrant holds a crying boy out of a train coming from Budapest and heading to the Austrian border, that has been stopped in Bicske, west of the Hungarian capital on Sept. 3, 2015. The train carrying between 200 and 300 migrants left Budapest's main international train station after authorities re-opened the station to migrants as the EU is grappling with an unprecedented influx of people fleeing war, repression and poverty in what the bloc has described as its worst refugee crisis in 50 years.

Migrants wait inside the railway station in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015.

A migrant family is arrested by local police after their local train coming from Budapest and heading to the Austrian border has been stopped in Bicske, west of the Hungarian capital on Sept. 3, 2015.

A migrant's family is escorted by police from Bicske train station to a bus that will take them to a refugee camp after their train from Budapest was stopped on Sept. 3, 2015. Ugly scenes erupted in Hungary on Thursday as migrants fought their way onto what they thought was the first train to western Europe in days, only to be left feeling tricked as police halted the train and tried to move them to a refugee camp.

A young child cries as hundreds of migrants try to board a train at the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015.

A migrant is detained after the train they were traveling in from Budapest arrived in Bicske, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015.

Migrants struggle to board a train at the railway station in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. More than 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia.

Migrants push and shout as they gather in front of the railway station in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015.

Residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk line up to receive food supplies, in Damascus, Syria, on Jan. 31, 2014, shows. From the three-year-old boy who washed ashore on a Turkish beach to the 71 migrants who suffocated in a truck in Austria to the daily scenes of chaos unfolding in European cities as governments try to halt a human tide heading north, there is no let up to the horrors that Syria’s civil war keeps producing. Syria’s brutal conflict, now in its fifth year, has touched off the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time. About 250,000 people have been killed and more than one million wounded since March 2011, according to U.N. officials.

Syrian refugees sleep on railroad tracks waiting to be processed across the Macedonian border Sept. 2, 2015, in Idomeni, Greece. Since the beginning of 2015 the number of migrants using the so-called "Balkans route" has exploded with migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey and then travelling on through Macedonia and Serbia before entering the EU via Hungary. The number of people leaving their homes in war torn countries such as Syria, marks the largest migration of people since World War II.

Migrants crowd the bridge of the Norwegian Siem Pilot ship sailing along the Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. The Siem Pilot is carrying to the Italian Port of Cagliari hundreds of migrants rescued in several operations in the Mediterranean Sea.

Norwegian police officer Lillian Berg, right, and a migrant help carry a woman who fainted on the bridge of the Norwegian Siem Pilot ship, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015.

Migrants waiting for their trains fight in a massive crowd at the eastern railway station in Budapest on Sept. 1, 2015, during the evacuation of the railway station by local police.

A group of refugees walk on the railway tracks after crossing from Serbia, in Roszke, Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015.

Migrants gather in front of Keleti station in central Budapest on Sept. 1, 2015, in Budapest, Hungary. The station was closed and was said to be an attempt by the Hungarian government to uphold EU law and restore order after recent chaotic scenes at the station.

Migrants gather outside the closed Eastern Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, after they were not allowed to board trains bound for Germany. More than 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia. Many apply for asylum but quickly try to leave for richer EU countries.

A Syrian family waits along with hundreds of other families on train tracks at the Greece-Macedonia border on Sept.1, 2015, in Idomeni, Greece.

Migrants and refugees sleep outside Keleti station, which remains closed to them in central Budapest on Sept. 2, 2015, in Budapest, Hungary.

Hungarian police officers face a group of Syrian refugees on the platform of the Kobanya-Kispest station, Budapest suburb, on Sept. 2, 2015, as the refugees refused to board a train to the Debrecen camp. Hungarian authorities face mounting anger from thousands of migrants who are unable to board trains to western European countries after the main Budapest station was closed.

Children walk down the tracks as families, mostly Syrian, wait at the Greek Macedonian border on Sept.2, 2015, in Idomeni, Greece. Several thousand migrant people are expected to arrive at the border today hoping to head north through Macedonia, after arriving in Athens in the previous few days.

A group of migrants is escorted by Hungarian police officers onto a train which will transport them to one of Hungary's refugee and migrant camps after police stopped them from getting on trains to Germany,in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia.

A woman from Syria holds a baby while waiting to be registered at the railway station in Rosenheim, southern Germany, on Sept. 2, 2015. Germany -- Europe's most populous nation and biggest economy -- has become the top EU destination for refugees and migrants fleeing conflict and misery.

A migrant boy holds a sign reading "SOS help me" as he sits with other migrants in front of the Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary, on Sept. 2, 2015. Hungarian authorities face mounting anger from thousands of migrants who are unable to board trains to western European countries after the main Budapest station was closed.

Migrants sit in front of a police line that blocks the Keleti railway station in Budapest on Sept. 2, 2015.

A Hungarian police officer scans the border with binoculars, searching for refugees entering the country illegally next to the town of Röszke, Hungary, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015.

A migrant girl holds a teddy bear in a line for the bus after her arrival from Hungary at the main train station in Munich, Germany, Sept. 1, 2015. Hundreds of migrants arrived in Munich during the night and the morning on trains from Hungary and Austria.

A refugee family from Syria waits to be registered at German Federal Police facility on Sept. 1, 2015 in Deggendorf, Germany. Trains from Budapest have brought over 1,000 migrants to Germany in the last 24 hours, though the flow abated quickly after Hungarian authorities prohibited migrants from boarding further trains at Budapest's Keleti station this morning.

A woman screams next to Macedonian policemen as she waits to be allowed to cross the border from Idomeni, northern Greece, to southern Macedonia, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Tensions are flaring once again at Greece's northern border with Macedonia, where about 1,500 migrants are trying to head north toward the more prosperous European Union countries.

Migrants and refugees crowd the platforms at the Keleti railway station in Budapest on Sept. 1, 2015. Keleti, the biggest Hungarian railway station, was closed today as police evacuated people trying to get on trains bound for Germany.

Migrants wait outside Keleti station in central Budapest after it was closed to migrants earlier on Sept. 1, 2015, in Budapest, Hungary.

Hungarian police guard the main entrance as migrants protest outside Keleti station in central Budapest after it was closed to migrants earlier today on Sept. 1, 2015, in Budapest, Hungary.

A young man sitson train tracks at the Greek Macedonian border on Sept. 1, 2015, in Idomeni Greece.

Migrants sit on a Norwegian Coast Guard boat after being transferred from the Italian Navy Ship Fulgosi during a migrant search and rescue mission off the Libyan Coasts, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Four dead bodies and hundreds of migrants were transferred on the Norwegian Siem Pilot ship from an Italian Navy ship and a Doctor Without Borders vessels after being rescued in different operation in the Mediterranean Sea.

Syrians Nezar, 55, a civil engineer, his son Sadeck, 18, and his daughter Abed Hadi,16, try to find the bus transporting them to the northern Greek border town of Idomeni, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, in Athens. The family left its home town of Aleppo a week ago without the mother who hopes to meet them after a few days. They want to go in Germany or Belgium.

Tanir, a migrant from Sudan, writes on a board during a French course provided by Christiane Gayerie, a former French teacher, in a makeshift encampment in Paris, France, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. The U.N. refugee agency says more than 300,000 migrants have sought to cross the Mediterranean Sea this year — nearly 40 percent more than the record number in all of last year.

Migrants line up and wait for registration at the reception center for refugees and asylum seekers in central Berlin, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015.

A man takes shelter under a tree inside of a tent city erected outside of a migrant reception center in Brussels, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Hundreds of migrants are arriving every day in Belgium, some making perilous journeys through Europe.

Police detain a man from Syria on the suspicion of smuggling migrants from Austria into Germany in Pocking near Passau, southern Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. German police intensified their operation in the border region to stop people smuggled into Germany.

Syrian migrants disembark from the catamaran Terra Jet at the Athens' port of Piraeus, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. About 1,800 refugees arrived from the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos as the country has been overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants this year. The vast majority of the people are from Syria and Afghanistan reaching from the nearby Turkish coasts and try to cross Balkans and continue to more prosperous European countries.

The feet of a migrant poke out from underneath a blanket as he sleeps on the sidewalk near the reception center for refugees and asylum seekers in central Berlin,Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015.

Yusuf Adam, a 32-year-old Somalian, prepares a meal in a squatted office building in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Adam has been living without a legal status in the Netherlands for 6 years and lives with a group of about 85 predominantly African refugees, who call themselves "We Are Here," and who have changed squats at least six times in recent years.

Syrian refugee Abed Hadi,19, feeds his nephew as he sits with other migrants at the railway tracks waiting to cross the borders from Idomeni town, northern Greece to southern Macedonia, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Greece has been overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants this year. Nearly all head to Greece's northern border with Macedonia, cross into Serbia and Hungary and go toward more prosperous European countries.

A group of refugees walk on the railway tracks after crossing from Serbia, in Roszke, Hungary, on Tuesday, Sept. 1. 2015. Migrants fearful of death at sea in overcrowded and flimsy boats have increasingly turned to using a land route to Europe through the Western Balkans.

A man walks between the tents in the central refuge for asylum seekers ZAST in Halberstadt, central German,Tuesday evening, Sept. 1, 2015.

Rinas, a refugee from Kobane in Syria, video chats with his smartphone outside an emergency shelter for refugees in Berlin, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. People can stay in the air-inflated structure until they are registered as asylum seekers.