The simple fact is that people want to flee Africa and they've got the money to pay.
There's two ways we can treat them
1) The Australian way - we abuse, beat up, torture, humiliate those lucky few that survive for fun and profit, justified as a deterrence to the others
2) Let them flee poverty and war, make the trip as safe as possible and process them rapidly when they arrive.
Or rather, there is one acceptable way to treat them.