Europe's Wave of Migration Brought Too Many Men

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4. Yes, it probably is.

However, that doesn't negate that the way this wave of migration was sold wasn't accurate and was visibly inaccurate at the time. Yet those who pointed out the inaccuracy were simply shamed and even excommunicated. Because, well, those who said otherwise were simply right.

Many of the migrants were just migrants. But it was "these are refugees, think of the women and children, how dare you call those poor people migrants, fleeing Syria with the shirt on their back" ... And then sitting in Lebanon or Jordan or Turkey for years until hope was provided by a wave of immigrants being given shelter and sympathy. The first attempt at dismissing the facts was to say that these were the gate-openers, the brave souls going ahead to prepare a place for their families. Well, apparently the men decided to just say, "Screw my family." These were disproportionately young adult males who were simple economic migrants, as many of their stories simply indicated. "There's nothing for me in the refugee camps," "I have no future in Turkey," or even, "I wanted to go to a school in Germany, but wasn't accepted--as a refugee they'll take me."

This is what the data strongly suggest, however "counterfactual" it may be to those who need to believe otherwise.