This chapter investigates the process of the so-called humanitarian securitization, focusing on dynamics between humanitarian and security-oriented rhetoric and policy actions embedded in the EU policy frames produced in response to the 2015 “migration crisis”. In doing so, it focuses on the nature of the humanitarian framing of the crisis within the EU policy discourse and its relation to the development of operational and militarized responses (i.e. EUNAVFOR Sophia, Frontex border operations) to increased migratory flows. The chapter centres predominantly on the Mediterranean border of the EU, which, given its dangerous nature of irregular border crossing and the number of fatalities, occupies the central role in conceptualization of the humanitarian features of the “migration crisis”. In this approach the chapter does not focus humanitarianism and security as opposite or mutually exclusive, but concentrates on the way these two logics coincide and intertwine in the framing process. In this respect, the chapter contributes to less-studied branch of securitization, showing how human referent object and the idea of humanitarianism have been utilized and gradually marginalized in the conceptualization of remedial actions towards the crisis, changing the nature of the EU’s operations in the Mediterranean from “search and rescue” to “seek and destroy”.