Yes, that jibes with the figures in the story: $6,000 a person and $1 million gross per shipload. It didn’t say how much they had to pay for the boat.
I tend to believe it is migration away from fear and hardship, not a nefarious plan to overtake Europe—although that is what in fact is happening. If you lived in Hell and there was Heaven right across the water, wouldn’t you try as well? That’s what it must seem like to them.
We take Western civilization for granted. We don’t know how lucky we are, most of the time.
If we didn’t take it for granted, there wouldn’t be all these little ingrates marching around with their hands up and claiming they can’t breathe.