We have a point-of-reference for all this ... the 1975-2000 Indochina Refugee Crisis.
The US eventually settled over 1M over 25 years. The US never took in more than 120K/year, and usually far less, and most countries in the EU had similar rates, based on their size. The US government also receives heavy assistance from private charities -- heavily religious, heavily Christian -- who settle, separate and integrate refugees, showing them how the American way of life works. Individual, private groups of Americans assisting the government, to move them out of the temporary -- and I stress temporary -- interment camps.
Now, take in what has happened in the EU. You have much smaller countries taking in 1M in less than 2 years. They don't have the private charities and related, individual assistance, of the US, and the government is responsible for them. They end up staying, permanently, in their internment camps. These become slums. They are not integrated into society. They don't get jobs. In fact, there are major lessons from Belgium in the recent Paris attacks on why this is horrendous.
It's great that some nations want to help. But if you don't provide people with jobs and opportunity, let alone don't integrate them ... well ... I think we all know what's going to happen in the future. I'm honestly tired of having to explain this to my fellow, left-leaning Americans ... that we can only take in so many refugees, and that's not thanx to the government, but those so-called "useless right-wingers" they always complain about. We let private charities, overwhelmingly religions ones, mostly Christian ones, help resettle and integrate them.
But even they can only take so many before they are saturated, and "leaving it to the government" -- like most EU citizens do -- is the worst thing that could possibly be done.
