How many Americans have been killed by ice agents in 2025 alone?
Executive summary
No reliable source in the reporting provided documents any U.S. citizens being killed by ICE agents during calendar year 2025; the deaths tied to ICE that year were overwhelmingly people who died in custody or during enforcement actions and were reported as migrants, with agencies and news outlets counting roughly 30–32 detention deaths in 2025 .
1. What the available tallies actually measure — detainee deaths, not “Americans killed by ICE”
Major investigative and advocacy reporting on 2025 centers on deaths inside ICE detention and during enforcement sweeps, with The Guardian, People and Project On Government Oversight documenting that about 31–32 people died in ICE custody in 2025 — figures explicitly framed as deaths in custody, not deaths of U.S. citizens at the hands of ICE officers . Reuters likewise reported “at least 30 people died in ICE custody in 2025,” and advocacy groups and oversight organizations treated those fatalities as detainees’ deaths tied to detention conditions, medical care and suicides rather than as the agency’s killing of U.S. citizens .
2. Fatal shootings by immigration agents — some citizens were shot across 2025–26, but reporting does not isolate 2025 citizen deaths
Compilations and open-source lists of shootings by immigration agents note multiple incidents beginning in 2025 and into 2026, and at least some people shot in that broader period have been identified as U.S. citizens in media or secondary lists . However, the sources provided do not identify a confirmed number of U.S. citizens killed by ICE agents during the calendar year 2025 alone; high-profile citizen deaths at the hands of ICE agents that are documented in these sources occurred in January 2026 (for example, Renée Nicole Macklin Good) and are discussed in the context of outrage over deaths that followed the 2025 custody toll .
3. Enforcement deaths that fall outside the custody count — still described as migrants in these reports
Some people who died during enforcement actions — for instance while fleeing agents or during raids — are noted separately from the agency’s detention tallies (Wikipedia’s list of deaths in ICE detention excludes at least two such cases from 2025) . Reporting that catalogs the 2025 fatalities consistently treats those additional fatalities as non-citizen migrants or does not identify them as U.S. citizens; there is no source among those provided that says a U.S. citizen was killed by ICE in 2025 [1].
4. Limits of the public record and why a cautious conclusion is required
The federal government does not publicly maintain a straightforward, consolidated count of how many U.S. citizens are detained or how often citizens are harmed in immigration enforcement, and some reporting warns that official ICE death-reporting can undercount incidents when critically ill detainees are released prior to death . Given those transparency gaps, the reporting provided can confirm the number of ICE custody deaths in 2025 (about 30–32) but cannot substantiate any confirmed deaths of U.S. citizens caused by ICE agents during 2025; the available sources instead document U.S. citizen fatalities linked to ICE actions in January 2026 .
5. Bottom line — the best answer supported by these sources
Based on the reporting and datasets supplied, there are zero confirmed instances in the provided sources of U.S. citizens being killed by ICE agents during calendar year 2025; the documented human toll for 2025 that the sources do record is roughly 30–32 deaths in ICE custody, involving migrants detained by the agency . This conclusion is contingent on the limits of publicly reported data and the scope of the cited articles, which do not show any verified citizen deaths at ICE hands in 2025 and place the high-profile citizen killings in early 2026 .