Are there official memorials or databases listing ICE officers killed on duty with biographies?

1. What the official record is: ICE’s Wall of Honor

ICE hosts a publicly accessible memorial that chronicles personnel who died in the line of duty and includes narrative descriptions of individual cases; the site’s entries recount incidents ranging from shootings to fatal vehicle crashes and other on-duty fatalities ^[1]. Reporting and archival ICE material confirm that high-profile cases such as Special Agent Jaime Zapata — killed in Mexico in 2011 — are included in ICE’s public records and press releases, showing the agency preserves incident narratives alongside names and dates ^{[4] [5]}.

2. Scope and content: biographies, historical reach, and caveats

ICE’s Wall of Honor does not limit itself strictly to deaths that occurred after the agency’s 2003 creation; it also lists deaths recorded under predecessor immigration enforcement bodies, and many entries contain short biographical and incident descriptions rather than full-length life histories ^{[1] [6]}. Independent reporting notes the Wall lists roughly dozens of deaths since ICE’s formation — one count cited 29 ICE officers on the site as of recent reporting — and that the causes recorded include COVID-19 and 9/11–related cancers among many listed fatalities ^{[2] [6]}.

3. Independent databases and cross-checking: ODMP and others

Outside the agency, memorial organizations compile parallel databases: the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP) publicly memorializes law enforcement and federal officers killed in the line of duty and maintains entries for DHS/ICE personnel with biographical summaries and incident details, serving as an independent cross-check and broader searchable database ^[3]. These third-party records often supplement agency listings with different structuring, searchable fields, and community-sourced memorial materials ^[3].

4. What these memorials do — and don’t — say about causes and context

ICE’s own listings and investigative summaries emphasize cause-of-death categories; reporting based on ICE data has highlighted that a plurality of recorded ICE fatalities were attributed to COVID-19 and to cancers tied to 9/11 cleanup work, and that relatively few deaths in ICE records are homicides committed during enforcement actions in recent decades ^{[2] [6]}. Mother Jones and other outlets analyzing ICE data underscore that ICE’s Wall of Honor includes pre-ICE-era cases and that among the agency-era fatalities, deaths directly resulting from being killed by immigrants are not recorded in the recent ICE dataset ^[6].

5. Political framing, transparency concerns, and limitations of public records

The memorial and third-party databases are factual repositories but exist within contested political narratives about how “dangerous” ICE work is; analyses show agency statistics have been used in political claims about rising assaults and fatalities, and independent scrutiny has sometimes found those claims selectively framed or lacking full context ^{[2] [6]}. Public sources provided here do not document every possible biographical detail for all entries and archived ICE pages note some content may be outdated or reflect prior administrations, so researchers should treat both agency and third-party listings as authoritative for names and incident summaries while recognizing limitations in scope and historical coverage ^{[4] [1]}.

6. Practical takeaway for researchers

The definitive starting point for official listings and agency-provided biographies is ICE’s Wall of Honor on ICE.gov, while independent memorials like the ODMP offer complementary entries and search tools; cross-referencing both sources provides the most complete publicly available portrait of ICE personnel who died in the line of duty, bearing in mind reported counts (e.g., the cited figure of 29 agency-era deaths) and the inclusion of predecessor-era cases on ICE’s site ^{[1] [2] [3]}.