A lot of foreigners to assimilate

The BBC article about the migrant crisis:

Germany can cope with at least a half-million asylum seekers a year for several years, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said.
Germany expects more than eight hundred thousand asylum-seekers in 2015 alone, four times the 2014 figure.
Gabriel reiterated that other EU states should share the burden.
The UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, says a record seven thousand Syrian migrants arrived in Macedonia alone and thirty thousand were on Greek islands.
The migrant influx has unsettled European governments and prompted diverse responses. Hungary's conservative leadership is building a border fence to try to keep them out, but German politicians have expressed pride in crowds who turned out to welcome new arrivals.
A Greek minister said that the island of Lesbos, which sits off the Turkish coast, was "on the verge of an explosion" due to a build-up of twenty thousand migrants.
The government and UNHCR have brought in extra staff and ships to process them.
Germany expects some 800,000 migrants this year, but Gabriel said it was prepared for more in the longer term. "I believe we could certainly deal with something in the order of a half a million for several years," he said in an interview with Germany's public ZDF television. "I have no doubt about it; maybe even more." 

At the scene on Lesbos: Jonny Dymond of BBC News

It is blazing hot at the Georgios Scufos Training Centre in Mytiline; a queue of hundreds stretches down the hill as Syrian refugees wait for entry, covering their heads with clothing, bags, pieces of cardboard, anything to keep the boiling sun off their heads.
Along one side of the former football pitch, plastic tables are staffed by Greek government officials, assisted by volunteer translators. The refugees present their papers and passports; many have wrapped their passports so tightly in plastic that they struggle to get them open.
But once they prove their identity the processing is quick. With government papers in their hands the refugees have what they so long for: the authorization to buy tickets for the specially chartered boats that will take them to Athens.
Nothing is easy for the refugees in Lesbos, but this hot little patch of land is the first piece of good news they have had for a long time.

Rico says that he is showing great restraint, not making any jokes about them being on Lesbos...