It is completely naive to think that refugees in Europe are anything other than economic refugees. Look at the data, non-European refugees are overwhelmingly working-age males: <a href="http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/08/02/4-asylum-seeker-demography-young-and-male/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/08/02/4-asylum-seeker-demograp...</a><p>I'm not discounting the struggle in Syria, but it seems fairly obvious that the opportunists well outweigh those who truly need asylum. In a real crisis the refugee population would be age and gender agnostic within a reasonable margin.