As long as I don't forget later to make a more detailed response:
... can we at least agree that "Shoot them until they stop coming" is both unworkable and heinous, just to get that out of the way and sideline LSP/LW's apparent preferred end state?
My preferred end state is simple checks at the airports and bullets for the smugglers beyond the channel, as once they're in Italy they're either going to Germany or Calais. I see zero impracticality or moral ambiguity in regards to killing human traffickers, who are plain and simple scum. I'm not talking about death penalty as they do in the east, more simple use of lethal force to disrupt trafficking operations in north africa and turkey. Dead smugglers never contributed to their country, their people, my country or my people - they are of value only to themselves, sending people off without their money on a rickety boat they don't care about for futures quite shite providing they don't just die in the med or get electrocuted in Calais. And I really see it completely odd when all of Europe had a working system, has now reached levels of immigration that beat WWII after abandoning such systems, and so many see it more feasible to exacerbate a broken system at worst or just spread the problem around Europe as the Swedes or Germans want. I understand the end goal is to kill the nationstate and replace it with the EU but you can't kill the nationstate and leave a dead Europe hahaa
Oh yeah, almost forgot - laws against human trafficking are nearly nonexistent in Africa and Arabia. Israel, Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have some, but those are countries where they have to neurotically check their borders for people coming in not out. Used to be that the old dictators would just run around murdering traffickers but now they're all dead, so whatever new government group is composed of people not too fond of eating hearts and swinging machetes will probably have to sit down with some Yuropoors and figure something out. Death penalty or life seems appropriate.
So what's the general opinion regarding processing centers on the southern shore of the Mediterranean? Apart from impracticability due to civil war, political instability etc. It seems like a good way to keep refugees out of harm's way, since they wouldn't have to use these rickety boats, and it would enable the EU to simply claim that all people on these boats are illegals anyway and tow them back to where they came from.
On the practical side western militaries are capable. The EU can already claim all the people on the boats are illegal anyways so that doesn't change. All that changes is that there is an incentive to not buy a boat as from the migrant perspective, you can claim asylum without paying out money to traffickers. From the Italian perspective you'll be able to vet who is a militant, who is fleeing war, who is seeking money or who is facing murder at home. Should finally allow for priority to go to Syrians facing death or worse by ISIS over someone who just wants a better job.