6-Europe or Die

Since 2000, more than 27,000 migrants and refugees have died attempting the perilous journey to Europe. With an unprecedented number of people breaking through its heavily barricaded borders in 2014, the EU continues to fortify its frontiers.

VICE News presents Europe or Die, a new four-part series that documents the efforts of those risking their lives to reach Europe, and the forces tasked to keep them out.

In this first part of the documentary, an inside view of the harrowing migration phenomenon in Melilla's border. It was a huge surprise for me to listen to a doctor refer to the injured african people who had just gone through the tortuous process of crossing the fence, as "a pain in the ass". It is simply atrocious.