Buget cuts, for once a good thing?

There was a segment on CBS's evening news recently about the release of undocumented workers from jail or detention as budget cuts are coming towards ICE.  These undocumented workers have been detained due to things such as: broken tail light, speeding, failure to stop at a stop sign.  It is there type of people being released, yet many "Americans"are in uproar about this.  They have this mindset that ICE is allowing pedophiles  and rapists back onto the street, when it is really just moms, dads, students, just regular people trying to make a better life for themselves.  These undocumented workers are now forced to where an ankle bracelet so that ICE can keep track of them.  By putting this policy into place they now are spending an average of 14 dollars a day on one person vs 146 that they were before.  To put it into perspective the average public school kid get 29 dollars a day for their education. So in order to detain these "criminals" and by criminals I mean hard working members of society we depend over 110 dollars a day on them over what we spend on our children.  If we are going to spend that kind of money on anyone shouldn't it be to improve them, instead of harm them?