this is why i did say beforehand
i meant 'why didn't they do this before letting them in'
because the way it's been handled so far in countries that are accepting refugees, it's just a mass grab for brownie(ha) points.
How could we do that?
They just started landing all of a sudden on the shores of Greece, and walking into Europe via Turkey.
It's a mass exodus.
We can't force Turkey or Syria to stop them where they are before we process them, because they're not part of the EU (and in the case of Syria, obviously don't have control of their country).
We can't just let them all stay where they land, because they would overrun nations like Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, etc...
So, the larger western nations start taking them in.
But the refugees were moving anyway. Europe has an open-border policy with all EU nations. Once they've landed in Greece they can walk their way through to Germany.
Greece, Croatia, Bosnia, they don't have the means to stop that many people.
Before you know it there are refugees on your doorstep in France, Germany, Britain, Sweden, etc...
There was never a chance to stop and educate the refugees.