Everything DeSantis has done benefits illegal immigrants in general and these people in specific.
Specifically they are in the national lime light and democrats wouldn't dare mistreat them.
Generally, and this is far more important, he's exposing the dynamics. Everything he did is exactly what Biden and other coyotes have been doing. They've been moving people around and dropping them off without warning.
So long as people are being let in and allowed to wander around looking for homes and jobs they will keep coming. They will keep dying on the way. They will continue to overwhelm social services along the southern border.
Now I know people high on kool aid won't be told that Biden was doing the exact same thing to a much greater degree, but independents will notice; and everyone will notice that the first and only response that the compassionate elite democrats could come up with was immediate deportation.
I am heavily reminded of when pro-abortion people ask "will you take care of the child?", as if a refusal is equivalent to condoning their termination. Ron DeSantis asks: "Will you take care of the immigrants?"
The solution to unwanted pregnancies is to not have them (contraception, condoms).
A solution to immigrants you can't take care of is to not let them in the country, and if you do that for a couple of years they will stop coming.
If we were prosperous we could be generous, but that won't happen until economic liberty is restored.