[AnotherUnixGeek]

The difference between a historian and a recorder of events is that a historian sees primary reasons behind the “offering people incentives to come”, and a recorder of events sees “unnecessary verbiage”.

Or, by this definition, a historian is someone who refuses to apply Occam's Razor. People have always migrated for economic reasons. Stop giving people economic incentives to show up and there's no magic in the basic fact that they will stop showing up. No migrants are crashing the gates of former Eastern Bloc nations. They're trying to get in on the social welfare states of Western Europe.

[annalex]

That is no Occam’s Razor, that is the ostrich’s head in the sand. I repeat the question: why do West European governments provide these incentives to the migrants?