The EU has made a deal, investing massive amounts of money into North African countries to keep refugees from crossing the sea. The EU representatives negotiating the deal knew exactly what was going on, even before the deal was happening.

There's no easy solution to the mass immigration problem, but this "solution" makes things worse for everyone.

No, but the EU did make a deal with Tunisia: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66222864

We're massively cutting back on our business with Russia over their atrocities in Ukraine, but when it comes to human rights in Tunisia, we're willing to let this stuff slide. Sure, there's no war, but handing a country money to enforce their deadly anti-refugee violence is very bad.