How many ICE or CBP officers have been indicted or convicted since 2015, according to federal court records?
Executive summary
The sources provided do not supply a single, comprehensive federal-court tally of ICE or CBP officers indicted or convicted since 2015; available reporting supplies case lists, agency-maintained arrest logs, and investigative findings that point to incidents and partial counts but not an authoritative total [1] [2] [3]. One advocacy list compiled by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance identifies 30 current or former ICE/Border Patrol officers who were charged and/or convicted, while government pages and press releases document individual prosecutions or internal arrest reporting but do not present a complete federal-court aggregate for 2015–present [1] [2] [4].
1. What the records offered actually show, and what they don’t
The Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney press releases confirm individual prosecutions — for example, a DOJ announcement that a CBP officer was charged with bribery-related offenses — but such releases are episodic and do not compile every indictment or conviction into a single searchable total across years and agencies [4]. CBP publishes a “Reported Employee Arrests” page that describes categories and reporting requirements for employee arrests and indictments and notes limitations in employee self-reporting, but that page does not present a simple cumulative number of federal indictments or convictions of CBP or ICE personnel since 2015 [2]. Advocacy organizations and investigative outlets publish lists and counts that fill gaps but use different inclusion rules (charged vs. convicted, current vs. former employees), which makes their totals non-equivalent to an authoritative federal-court record [1].
2. Advocacy and watchdog counts: partial but useful snapshots
An updated list published by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance compiles 30 current and former ICE and Border Patrol agents who have been charged with and/or convicted of crimes — a concrete, publicized figure — but that list is curated by an advocacy group and mixes charged and convicted statuses, and does not claim to be a complete federal-court audit covering every jurisdiction since 2015 [1]. Independent trackers such as TRACE and investigative projects have documented shootings and other incidents by ICE officers and noted the absence of indictments in specific subsets of cases (for example, reporting that no ICE agent indictments were found for a series of shootings between 2015 and 2021 in one investigation), showing how investigative findings can point to lacunae in accountability even as they do not replace a comprehensive court-record count [3].
3. Why an authoritative count is elusive in public reporting
Federal indictments and convictions are scattered across U.S. Attorney’s Offices, federal district courts, and agency internal records; agencies publish episodic press releases and administrative arrest reporting but do not publish a consolidated, routinely updated federal-court database specifically enumerating all ICE/CBP officer indictments or convictions since 2015 [4] [2]. Additionally, advocacy compilations and news investigations use different thresholds (e.g., charges vs. convictions, state vs. federal prosecutions, active duty vs. former employees), which produces divergent totals that cannot be cleanly summed without a standardized methodology [1].
4. What can be asserted, with evidence from the supplied sources
From the supplied material: (a) an advocacy list identifies 30 ICE/CBP officers charged and/or convicted [1]; (b) CBP maintains a public “Reported Employee Arrests” page describing arrests and indictments reporting but does not publish a single cumulative total in the material supplied [2]; and (c) investigative reporting cited by CBC/Trace found no evidence of indictments for ICE agents in a documented set of shootings across 2015–2021, illustrating that for at least that subset there were no federal indictments identified by that investigation [3]. No source among those provided publishes a definitive federal-court total of indictments or convictions for ICE or CBP officers for the full 2015–present period.
5. Bottom line and recommended next steps for verification
Given the limitations of the provided sources, a definitive answer cannot be produced from these materials alone; the closest public figures are a 30-person advocacy list (charged/convicted mix) and episodic DOJ/agency press records (individual cases) without an aggregated sum [1] [4] [2]. To produce an authoritative count would require systematic queries of federal court dockets (PACER) and U.S. Attorney press archives across all districts, cross-referenced with agency personnel records to distinguish on-duty federal prosecutions from state prosecutions or civilian convictions — a step not covered by the supplied reporting [2].