To me that doesn't sound crazy, it's just about the fact that even being homeless in Amsterdam or something is a much easier life than what's available to a commoner in a good portion of sub-Saharan Africa. If it was incredibly simple to get a "tourist visa" for people from developing countries, Europe would have even more people just showing up and never leaving than they already do today.

Whatever one thinks about the overall subject of migrants, I think one can at least agree with these two things:

1. We won't fix poverty and corruption in the developing world by everyone there just jumping to the nearest 'rich' country.

2. Once migrants are in the 'rich' country, it's more controversial and difficult to force them to go back home than it is to not enable them to come in the first place.