The latest figures from the International Organization for Migrants says more than 364,000 migrants have arrived in Europe so far this year, with 2,800 dying along the way.
Earlier this week Hungarian authorities shut down Budapest's train station as it overflowed with migrants trying to get to other parts of Europe.
World Views panelist and central and southeastern Europe expert Rebecca Cruise Hungary has taken criticism for how it's handling the migrant crisis.
"Hungary says that it's following laws, and to some extent the wishes of the western countries by trying to get documentation from all of these refugees that are coming in," Cruise said. "When you have these numbers, that's obviously going to take a large amount of processing of people."
Macedonia attempted to shut down its border with Serbia, and Hungary is wrapping up construction on a 175-kilometer barbed wire fence to keep migrants from entering the country.
Many of these migrants are trying to escape the grip of ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Joshua Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and the author of the blog Syria Comment, says the larger issue here is that as the world becomes a more crowded place, there are going to be many more refugees and other migrants.
"What we're seeing as a trickle coming across the Mediterranean is only going to grow larger," Landis said. "And all the developed countries, just like the United States, don't know what to do in the face of this growing flood of refugees."
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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