I dunno, maybe we could stop invading the Middle East to start, that might help. ISIS are effectively a direct result of our crappy handling of Iraq. Keeping everyone together in one, massive PoW camp then just releasing them was idiotic, because then everyone's been coordinating and sharing info while they were held there. Once they were released, they were well-enough trained to take over the country after that. Syria's destabilisation didn't help either. We're all for making a half-hearted effort to take down Assad, but without proper handling that's just another power vacuum waiting to happen. Same with the rest of the Arab Spring. Wasn't that great? Just report on some Twitter videos that the entire region is undergoing revolution, but make no efforts to help with the transition and rebuilding of it all.
On top of that, Europe needs a coordinated strategy for this sort of thing. Zones migrants can be held at and looked after while their asylum is processed, with the basic necessities for survival. We need to work out just how many refugees each country can handle, and what share of the influx each country should take on. Organised transport, areas organised for housing, and help integrating them into their new societies.
But the Right Wing wouldn't want us to do that, it's all about Austerity, Austerity, Austerity. Except for Mr Cameron apparently [URL="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/03/uk-seems-relax-pressure-cayman-islands-company-register"]relaxing efforts to get tax havens to help[/URL] with dealing with that [URL="http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Documents/PCSTaxGap2014Full.pdf"]deficit of tens of billions of pounds[/URL].
No no, far easier to harass the [URL="http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/the-cost-of-benefit-fraud"]comparatively miniscule £25 million or so[/URL] from Benefit Fraud/Cheating. The cost of immigration is harder to nail down as it primarily comes from illegal immigration, but even the Daily Mail quotes it as £3.7billion. Hefty, but not even close to how much a little effort against tax evasion would achieve.
Additionally, a fair amount of the cost of illegal immigration is mounting up massive border patrols and arresting people for deportation, which is pretty much what people are demanding yet more of. Oh well.
There's no easy solution or simple answer, but I dunno, the safest one seems to be the one that involves less desperate people washing up on European shores as corpses. Kids or adults, the fact such an event like this is happening en masse is terrible. Do we need corpses washing ashore at Margate before the UK takes note of the problem?