How many ice agents have been injured
Executive summary
The available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative tally of how many ICE agents have been injured; federal releases give counts of assaults and vehicular attacks against ICE officers, and several news investigations document specific wounded officers, but none of the sources in the record supplies a definitive total of injured ICE personnel [1] [2] [3]. While the Department of Homeland Security has published aggregate assault statistics and several outlets report individual episodes in which officers were hurt, the datasets and news stories cited here stop short of producing a clear headcount of injured ICE agents [1] [4] [3].
1. What the federal data actually says about assaults on ICE personnel
DHS public statements in late 2025 and early 2026 framed a sharp rise in violence against ICE law enforcement, reporting 275 assaults on ICE officers during January 20–December 31, 2025 compared with 19 in the same period in 2024, and 66 vehicular attacks from January 21, 2025–January 7, 2026 versus two the previous year [1]. Those figures are presented by DHS as counts of assaults or attack events rather than counts of injured officers, and the department’s releases emphasize percentage increases and categories of incidents rather than a precise tally of injured personnel [1] [2].
2. Specific documented injuries in the reporting
News reporting and court records identify several discrete incidents in which federal officers were wounded: reporting around a 2025 arrest referenced an ERO agent injured during a detention that later linked to agent Jonathan E. Ross in Minneapolis, as recorded in court documents [3]; media accounts also relay DHS claims that an officer was “seriously injured” after being dragged by a car in a separate Chicago-area case [5]. Other outlets note episodes of attempted murder charges and attacks connected to ICE facilities and Border Patrol sites that resulted in injuries to officers, but those pieces describe incidents rather than aggregate injury totals [6] [4].
3. Why a definitive injured-officer headcount is not available in these sources
The datasets and reporting available here either aggregate events (assaults, vehicular attacks, threats) or document individual use-of-force episodes and prosecutions; none publishes a consolidated, independently verified number of ICE officers injured in the 2025–early 2026 period [1] [4] [2]. Investigative databases cited by journalists focus largely on people shot by federal agents or on deaths in custody, so their counts (for example, numbers of people killed or injured by ICE and CBP) do not translate into a simple count of injured ICE personnel [7] [8] [4].
4. Competing narratives and incentives in the sources
The Department of Homeland Security releases emphasize dramatic percentage increases in assaults and vehicular attacks—figures that buttress calls for greater protection for agents and for political support—while civil‑liberties organizations and many news outlets focus on fatalities and alleged excessive force by agents, illustrating opposing institutional incentives in the public debate [1] [9] [10]. Independent outlets such as The Trace and The Guardian compiled incidents of federal shootings and deaths in custody, but their emphasis is on people harmed by federal enforcement rather than injuries sustained by agents, which skews public attention away from an officer injury tally [7] [4].
5. Bottom line and reporting limits
Based on the materials provided, a precise number of ICE agents injured cannot be asserted: DHS offers counts of assault incidents (e.g., 275 reported assaults, 66 vehicular attacks in specified windows) that imply elevated risk but do not translate to an exact injured-officer headcount, and news reporting documents several wounded officers in high-profile cases without producing a consolidated total [1] [2] [3]. To obtain a definitive number would require either a DHS/ICE breakdown explicitly listing injured personnel by incident or an independent dataset that aggregates officer injury reports across jurisdictions and incidents—neither of which is present in the supplied sources [1] [4].