Greece says it's “reached limits” on the flood of migrants arriving on its shores.

According to the Guardian, Greece has hosted almost 90,000 refugees and migrants and they are asking the European Union for help. 

According to UNHCR that's more than the combined total of asylum seeker registered in Italy, Spain, Malta and Cyprus.

About 40,000 people are on Samos, Lesbos, Chios, Kos and Leros - the islands closest to Turkey.
Many of them are crammed into camps designed for 5,400 people. 

The Guardian reports that in recent months the government has only been able to move about 10,000 people from the islands to the Greek mainland.

In September, Greece accepted more than 10,500 migrants - the highest in any single month since the European Council reached an agreement with Turkey to curb the flow of asylum seekers.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has announced new measures to control migration. He wants to replace the camps with “closed” detention centers, which human rights groups have compared to prisons. 

Mitsotakis also wants to accelerate reviews of asylum applications and deport those who fail to qualify.