but at least i can agree that Merkel's generosity has unfortunate side effects like encouraging dangerous journeys like you said.
You need to look at who is benefiting from this immigrant smuggling. Human traffickers in Turkey and the Balkans have earned tens of billions of USD so far from this trade. If Merkel wanted the refugees in Germany, then what prevented her from airlifting all those refugees from Turkey to Germany? She wanted the media to highlight the immigrant trail, from Turkey to Europe.