This is another reason I miss the old European Empires, because if they were still around and migrants tried to barge in, they'd not only use force to keep them out that it'd look like the trenches of WW1 but also see them fleeing as an opportunity to grab some free real estate.

The biggest example of failure of the 'softly caring approach' is Libya, thanks to western intervention, that's the main hub for migrants going from there to Europe, open air slavery markets exist and ISIS still manage to exist in bases there where they were wiped put everywhere else. These organisations funding this invasion is salt to the open wounds.