I'm off to bed, but I'll leave you with this:
The Africans should have been allowed in to the country - I agree with you. But, the system does not take into account circumstances such as this, and money is not so easily redistributed as you seem to think. This is all politics, and lots of politics is paperwork. If there's gonna be room for emotions, exceptions, individual circumstances etc... on all application forms, then I'll tell you - their application would still be at the bottom of a very large pile right now.
It seriously is just a technicality in an unperfect system... unfortunately, the perfect system where they would be allowed in quite simply wouldn't be time efficient, or even economically viable.
GOOD NIGHT!