Subheadline of the article:
> Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
7th paragraph of the article:
> The vast majority of people in ICE custody have no criminal conviction, and residing in the US undocumented is typically a civil, not criminal, offense.
If I had to guess, you consume a lot of entertainment media.
And especially by your own acknowledgment they are mostly dying in US hospitals built for Americans providing the best available care at the expense of US taxpayers and healthcare consumers.
Numerically they are safer in ICE custody than at large either in the USA or back where they belong.
The poem “First They Came” was written by a German pastor who enthusiastically supported Nazis at first, because after all they were fighting against communists and all the other foreign agents undermining the homeland.