Germany accepting this enormous number of refugees is just going to speed the way of the EU crashing and burning. Why don't the Turks or Saudis accept these refugees?
Refugees are extremely expensive to modern western welfare states.
Norway:
The central bureau of statistics (roughly equivalent to the congressional budget office) calculated that the cost of each non western immigrant was 4.1 million NOK during their lifetime; equal to 665,000 USD. There are variations between the groups, with Somalis costing twice that.
Reference: SSB Reports 15/2012, Makroøkonomi og offentlige fi nanser i ulike scenarioer for innvandring (Macro econmics and public finances in different immigration scenarios)
http://www.ssb.no/a/publikasjoner/pd...app_201215.pdf
Denmark
It's central bank's third quarterly report of 2008, it noted that all immigration except for high skilled western ones were a massive loss. In 2005 this loss per immigrant was estimated to be negative 2,6 million DK, equal to 461,000 USD. Mind you, the inflation means the real value today is higher by 20% if the online inflation calculator is to be believed.
Source: Report Velfærdskommmissionen March 2005 (The Welfare Commision) page 26.
Sweden
Well, statistics like this would get you exiled pretty quickly. But we do know that, according to the central bureau of statistics in Sweden, 57% of "foreign born" immigrants age 21-61 work, whereas 87% is the number for natives. For Africans the number is 39/48 for women/men, for Asians (mid easterners realistically) it's 46/54.
Source: Statistiska Centralbyrån Integration: Rapport 6
So there's no reason to think the expense is any lesser in Sweden than in other countries.
The main problem is low labour participation rates, with a secondary problem of little higher education in the second generation. Also, mind you, that in Norway the unemployment rate looks like this and an economy per capita of twice that of Germany and France. Free school, university, highly subsidized childcare. In other words, ideal conditions. If it doesn't work here, how do you think immigration works in countries with 6+% unemployment?
The fact is, if you actually care about helping people, you should advocate spending money in their home countries because god knows how many africans you could save for $500,000. Certainly more than the one you can save through immigration - and it ends up being more than 500k a piece too, once they start bringing their family members in.
UK
Some attempts at making calculations have been made and they show that immigration cost 120 billion£. Of course, it will be much worse once these grow old and their labour participation rate plummets (further). This is another common trick to make immigration look profitable: You count the incomes without adjusting for age. Immigrants tend to be younger, and thus get less pensions. Of course, this doesn't last... Immigrants will eventually age.
All of the above calculations are optimistic estimates, as they assume the children of immigrants are integrated 100% and won't incur additional costs. They also don't take into account that in many cultures second generation immigrants will bring spouses from their old country, thus incurring additional costs.
It's a pity that our collective establishments have tried as hard as they can to deny these facts for decades, but eventually the bubble will burst. It can happen sooner or later, but the later it bursts the worse it's gonna be.