How many ice agents have been hurt or killed in action vs civilians and undocumented immigrants in the last 12 months

1. The metric the question actually needs: deaths vs injuries and who is the aggressor

The clearest, best-documented figures from recent reporting relate to deaths in ICE custody — Reuters and The Guardian report at least 30–32 people died in ICE custody during 2025, the highest level in two decades ^{[2] [1]}. By contrast, reporting does not produce a comparable, independently verified count of ICE agents killed “in action” by civilians or undocumented immigrants during the same 12‑month window; analyses and historical records cited by media and think tanks emphasize that ICE agents are rarely killed by immigrants and that agency officer homicides are exceptionally uncommon ^{[6] [4]}.

2. What reporting says about lethal encounters involving ICE officers

Investigations and major outlets document a rise in incidents in which ICE or Border Patrol officers used deadly force or were involved in shootings: The Guardian counted 16 shootings involving ICE agents under the recent enforcement campaign, and high‑profile cases — including the Minneapolis shooting that killed Renee Nicole Good — have intensified scrutiny of ICE’s use of force ^{[3] [7]}. Those accounts focus on officers discharging weapons and on civilian fatalities; they do not equate directly to agents being killed in action by undocumented migrants ^{[3] [7]}.

3. Injuries to ICE agents: asserted increases, but poor public accounting

ICE and DHS have publicly described increases in assaults on officers, and some reporting relays agency claims of dramatic percentage jumps in reported assaults, but independent requests for granular, verifiable nationwide injury counts drew limited or no public-data responses, and watchdog reporting stresses gaps in DHS/ICE disclosure ^[6]. Analyses from Cato and other authors argue that, statistically, Border Patrol and ICE officer deaths remain lower than those of many other law-enforcement categories — a context that undercuts claims that ICE officer fatalities or battlefield‑style casualties have surged ^{[4] [5]}.

4. Context: detainee deaths eclipse officer casualties in recent coverage

Across the reporting landscape, the most concrete numeric change is the increase in detainee deaths: Reuters and The Guardian document roughly 30–32 detainee deaths in 2025 and several deaths in early January 2026 ^{[2] [1]}. News outlets and local coverage (Washington Post, Marshall Project) highlight individual deaths and allegations of misconduct in custody, underscoring a gap between detailed reporting on detainee mortality and the absence of a similarly transparent, centralized tally of ICE agent injuries or agent deaths attributable to civilians/undocumented immigrants ^{[8] [7]}.

5. Bottom line and limits of available reporting

Based on the provided sources, there is no corroborated evidence of ICE agents being killed by civilians or undocumented immigrants in the past 12 months; historical summaries assert that ICE officers have virtually never been killed by immigrants and that officer deaths are rare ^{[6] [4]}. There were multiple shootings involving ICE officers (16 incidents cited) and a surge in deaths of people in ICE custody (~30–32 in 2025), but precise, contemporaneous counts of ICE agents injured in the last 12 months are not publicly available in the cited reporting — DHS/ICE disclosures on officer injuries are incomplete in these sources ^{[3] [2] [6]}.