These camps are pockets of third world instability in Europe. It is really crucial people understand this. This is third world conflict in a small place in Europe.
The European governments opened the door for masses of third world people to come in. The third world people are desperate for a better life. From your point of view they are "economic migrants." From their point of view they are risking everything. Death, imprisonment, isolation, heft, serious injury. They risk this to get a better life.
The problem is that when they arrive in Europe there is NO facility that actually integrates. They are being bottled up, either in makeshift homeless camps, or in facilities where they are processed. This is completely irresponsible. This leads to boredom, violence, and increased anger and desperation.
I am not suggesting that they be let out to roam free. I am suggesting that the "compassion" shown this fall and summer was a complete facade. There is nothing behind it. There is no plan.
Merkel in particular is responsible for publicly telling the people of the world to come to Germany. They heard her, they came, and in the process Europe is getting overwhelmed.
The way things are going, I don't see how this gets better, or gets resolved. Riots from the right are increasing, and these migrant camps are simply being packed full with more bored, shiftless young men. We don't need to look deeply into their ideologies or their races to know that this is a stupid idea.
Even the deportations that are attempted are failing. In my neighborhood I met a man supposedly deported because he was judged to not be a "refugee." He simply left the camp, and now the government can't find him, and he is living a desperate life on the street. How long until people like this turn to petty crime, or link up to support each other through whatever ways they can on the outside of the welfare state?
Every little story about this crisis is proving what a colossal issue this is going to become. Sadly the right is not offering a sane solution without lacing it with Islamophobia (which prevents a coalition and puts its sites on the wrong issues) and the left is completely ignoring the problem believing that good will and nice feelings mixed with blatant avoidance will make the problem go away.