Which specific ICE shooting cases from 2009–2016 led to civil settlements, and what were the settlement amounts?
Executive summary
Reporting assembled for this brief finds no contemporaneously documented civil settlements tied to ICE shootings that occurred in the 2009–2016 window with named cases and settlement amounts; investigative coverage instead documents seven lawsuits arising from ICE shootings in that period, of which most were dismissed, one remained ongoing and one was “settled” but reported without an admission of wrongdoing—reporting does not provide a publicly disclosed dollar figure for that settlement [1]. Recent reporting does show small federal settlements in later, separate ICE-use-of-force matters (for example, settlements of roughly $70,000 and $72,500 reported in 2025–2026), but those are outside the 2009–2016 timeframe the question targets [2].
1. What the contemporaneous record shows: lawsuits, dismissals, and one opaque settlement
Investigative work cataloguing ICE shootings during the period found 59 shootings between 2009 and 2016 that resulted in 23 deaths and multiple injuries, and that produced seven civil lawsuits — none of which were successful in the way civil-rights advocates typically seek — with one lawsuit still ongoing at the time of reporting and one described as “settled” but without an admission of wrongdoing from ICE [1]; that reporting does not identify a specific incident-by-incident settlement amount tied to the 2009–2016 shootings [1].
2. Which incident was settled, and what the sources actually say
The Trace’s extensive review of ICE shootings identified that, among the seven lawsuits tied to the 2009–2016 incidents, a single case ended in a settlement but that settlement was reported as reached “without admission” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the article does not disclose an amount or attach a named-case dollar figure to any specific 2009–2016 shooting [1] [3]. Because the public records and litigation histories compiled in that reporting do not list a dollar sum for that period’s settled case, there is no documented settlement amount in the provided sources that can be cited for the 2009–2016 shootings [1].
3. Context from later ICE settlements does not answer the 2009–2016 question
Separate reporting from Reuters and other outlets documents small federal settlements in ICE-related suits in later years — for example, reporting that the government paid roughly $70,000 in one recent settlement and $72,500 in another federal judgment-fund record from cases outside the 2009–2016 window — but those settlements are tied to later incidents and thus cannot be used to specify which 2009–2016 shootings produced settlements or amounts for that earlier period [2]. The Trace’s broader historical work cautions readers that ICE’s internal handling and lack of transparency make it difficult to map use-of-force incidents to public monetary remedies, a limitation evident in the absence of detailed settlement data for 2009–2016 [3] [1].
4. Why firm answers are hard to produce from the available reporting
Sources uniformly describe legal barriers — dismissals, qualified immunity, and narrow pathways for suits against federal officers — and also note ICE and DHS opacity about use-of-force records, which together mean that public reporting and court dockets can understate or obscure whether a particular shooting produced a monetary settlement and for how much [4] [1] [3]. As a result, the authoritative reporting compiled here answers the structural question (that almost no civil lawsuits against ICE over those shootings resulted in plaintiff victories and that one settlement was reported without admission) but does not provide named 2009–2016 cases together with specific settlement amounts because the reporting does not contain those amounts or identify the settled case by figure [1].
5. Bottom line and what remains to be verified
The verifiable bottom line from the provided reporting is that among the 59 ICE shootings between 2009 and 2016 there were seven lawsuits, most were dismissed, one was ongoing, and one was reported as settled without admission of wrongdoing — but no settlement amount tied expressly to those 2009–2016 shootings is disclosed in the sources provided here [1] [3]. Separate, later settlements are documented in other reporting (e.g., settlement figures near $70,000 and $72,500), but those concern incidents outside the 2009–2016 window and therefore do not answer the question about that specific period [2].