This is not really the process: illegals who are caught by the police are sent to a third party place (in this case an African country) so their refugee status can be processed from there. If they get accepted, they can legally come to Europe, otherwise they presumably need to go back to their home country.
It is a noble cause to be willing to accept those who seek a better life. However we need to know the numbers of what we're facing:
- 1/3 of Africa alone say they would love to live in Europe: the overwhelming majority of Africans having standards of living much below ours. Africa has a population of 1.5B people. Now do you still consider it is your duty to welcome 500 million people?
- It's a fact that many countries in the world are unsafe. But if you're accepting people from unsafe countries, you are also importing criminals from there thus increasing criminality in your own home (Dutch women statistically being the first victims). If you have Twitter, I highly encourage you to skim through this thread. Long story short, immigrants from non Western countries are up to 5 times more likely to commit crimes.
I personally support the refugee status, however a refugee should be someone of importance who is facing a death sentence or life in imprisonment for opposing their government (such as Julian Assange, AlexeΓ― Navalny, or Edward Snowden). A refugee shouldn't be a random person crossing the border just because the grass is greener on the other side, just like you probably wouldn't invite yourself to your neighbor's house just because it's seemingly better than yours. We are losing common sense at a rapid pace π
Not to mention that there is a lot of human trafficking with refugees, some organizations probably being part of it... Either they have to pay indecent amount of money to people to cross a sea on very bad shape boats, or they end up in restaurants having almost no salary which push toward the destruction of social gains (higher salary, health covering etc.).
Refugees can be nice eventually, but like for Climate change, if there is a real problem, it is very difficult to make the difference to what is real and what is made up just for a bunch of people to get money from it.
To illustrate the problem you point with the number of refugees coming to Europe fro instance, there is this video. It's a good way to realize that, if we really want to help, maybe measures shouldn't be taken here, but there.