How many ICE and CBP officers were reported injured in DHS incident reports for 2025?
Executive summary
The exact count of ICE and CBP officers reported injured in DHS incident reports for calendar year 2025 cannot be determined from the documents provided here because the primary official data file that contains officer-injury counts is referenced but not reproduced in these sources [1]. DHS public statements and press releases offer related tallies—such as the department’s claim of 275 assaults on ICE officers in 2025—but those figures are different measures (assaults, vehicular attacks) and are not the same as the specific “officer injuries” tabulation in the DHS use-of-force dataset [2] [1].
1. What the official DHS collection is and why it matters
DHS’s Office of Health, Safety and Security maintains an annual use-of-force incidents table that, according to the agency, includes breakdowns of subject and officer injuries across the department’s nine law-enforcement components — explicitly including CBP and ICE — and that file is the source that would contain the authoritative 2025 counts of officers injured [1].
2. DHS press releases and public claims that are related but not definitive
The Department of Homeland Security has issued press statements and summaries that highlight dramatic increases in assaults and vehicular attacks against ICE officers—most notably a DHS release asserting 275 assaults during 2025 and 66 vehicular attacks in the period Jan 21, 2025–Jan 7, 2026—which DHS frames as evidence of a large rise in threats to ICE personnel [2]. Those numbers are presented by DHS as counts of “assaults” and “vehicular attacks,” not an explicit tally of how many officers sustained injuries in DHS’s use-of-force incident reporting [2].
3. Reported high-profile incidents that show injuries but don’t add up to a total
Several news items and DHS statements document individual or clustered incidents in which ICE or CBP personnel were injured—examples include a seriously injured ICE officer in a Chicago traffic-stop shooting referenced in DHS statements [3] [4], and the Dallas attacks that left several officers and a Border Patrol employee wounded [5]. These incidents demonstrate occurrences of officer injury in 2025 but are episodic and do not constitute a comprehensive count from the department’s incident-reporting dataset [3] [5] [4].
4. Independent reporting and watchdogs raise context and skepticism
Investigative and watchdog reporting shows increases in use-of-force encounters and administrative spending on equipment in 2025—coverage that ties into the same operational tempo that could affect officer injuries—yet those journalists and NGOs generally report incidents, trends, and policy questions rather than reproducing DHS’s officer-injury totals [6] [7]. Moreover, critics highlight that DHS messaging around threats to officers can be politically used to justify aggressive enforcement and media narratives, with outlets such as Reason and NPR documenting contestation over DHS’s tone and transparency [8] [9].
5. Why a definitive answer isn’t possible from the provided material and what to do next
The single concrete pathway to an authoritative number is the DHS OHSS use-of-force incidents dataset referenced on DHS’s site; that file reportedly contains officer-injury counts but was not included in the materials supplied here, so extracting the precise 2025 totals requires downloading and reading the OHSS data table directly [1]. For context and cross-checks, DHS press releases (e.g., the assault/vehicular-attack figures) and contemporaneous media reports document numerous injured officers and high-profile episodes in 2025, but they are not a substitute for the dataset’s officer-injury column [2] [3] [5].