Dreher said "The massive migration of barbarians into the Roman Empire, in the 4th through 6th centuries, changed European civilization permanently. They caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and centuries later, the rise of a new civilization there, based on the descendants of old Roman stock and Christianized Germanic tribes. Will the latter-day descendants of those Europeans be able to hold back the “barbarian invasions” from Africa in the 21st century? Or will they have to do as the Romans did and absorb the strangers, and, over centuries, create a new civilization? These are the stakes".

Is it true that the Barbarian invasions were as bad as people like Dreher say they are or is there more to the story?

Edit: I accidentally deleted another portion of my post. What I said was I kept seeing the Barbarian invasions of Rome being used as a comparison for modern migrations, but this doesn't particularly make any sense to me. The comparison seems very forced for one, and the people who make tend to ignore a lot of the nuances of the modern migration situation and the nuances of previous barbarian invaders.