With more than 1 million people streaming into the European Union hoping for sanctuary or jobs, nations have erected fences, deployed troops and tightened border controls. "What we have worked for, for so many years, we are seeing it crumbling now in front of us," Roberta Metsola, a leading EU lawmaker on migration, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The legal options for countries like Germany, Austria and Sweden to impose ID checks on everyone who enters, including Europeans, begin to run out. Some 850,000 people arrived there last year, many to the Greek islands after a short but often treacherous sea journey in smugglers' boats from Turkey. Managing the country's vast maritime border would challenge even an experienced government with a fully equipped public service.
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