A list of all the US citizens that have been killed or detianed illegally by ICE
Executive summary
A definitive, exhaustively sourced list of "all the U.S. citizens that have been killed or detained illegally by ICE" cannot be produced from the documents supplied because the reporting is partial, contested, and focused on high‑profile incidents rather than a comprehensive audit [1] [2]. What follows is a careful synthesis of the names and cases that these sources explicitly identify as U.S. citizens who were either killed in encounters with federal immigration enforcement or who were reported as wrongly detained or deported, plus an explanation of evidentiary limits and competing official claims [3] [4] [5].
1. Documented names cited in the reporting — killings and deaths
Reporting collected by The Guardian, Reuters and other outlets identifies Renée Nicole Good as a U.S. citizen killed by an ICE agent during a Minneapolis incident that sparked nationwide protests [3] [5]. Alex Jeffrey Pretti, described in news reports as a 37‑year‑old Minneapolis resident and VA intensive care nurse who was shot and killed by federal agents in the same period, is also named among the fatalities in reporting on federal‑agent killings [3]. Multiple sources catalogue deaths of people in ICE custody in late 2025 and January 2026 — including Geraldo Lunas Campos (a Cuban detainee who died at Camp East Montana) and other detainees — but those reports uniformly identify many of those who died as non‑citizens; the sources do not present a verified, complete roster of U.S. citizens who died in ICE custody [6] [7] [8] [9].
2. Documented names cited in the reporting — detentions and alleged wrongful deportations
Several pieces of reporting and compilation indicate specific instances where people identified as U.S. citizens were detained or even deported: Wikipedia extracts and investigative reporting cite George and Esmeralda Doilez as U.S. citizens who were detained by ICE [4], and two U.S. citizen stepbrothers, Godinez and Napolés, were reported detained in Salisbury, North Carolina [4]. A striking claim in the compiled sources states that 5‑year‑old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos — born in 2020 in Austin — was deported to Honduras alongside her mother on January 11, 2026, a case framed in coverage as involving a U.S. citizen child subject to deportation [4]. The Washington Senate subcommittee inquiry materials note broader patterns of ICE and CBP detaining U.S. citizens and collect case examples, underscoring that citizens have been "inappropriately detained" in multiple instances [1].
3. Patterns, advocacy findings and official numbers that matter
Advocacy groups and watchdogs document a sharp rise in detention volume and deaths in custody: Detention Watch Network, the American Immigration Council and EFF note record numbers of deaths in ICE custody in 2025 and numerous missing detainees, arguing the expanded system has produced more wrongful detentions and fatalities and that ICE has at times targeted citizens and legal residents [10] [11] [2]. Journalistic aggregates and timelines compiled by The Guardian and others list dozens of deaths in ICE custody across 2025–2026 but do not uniformly classify victims by citizenship in every case, limiting the ability to declare a full list of citizens killed in custody [9] [3].
4. Official responses, disputes and evidentiary limits
ICE, DHS and other officials have described investigations into individual deaths and defended detention medical care in public statements, and many agencies dispute characterizations that every death or detention represents an illegal act; those official perspectives appear repeatedly in reporting but do not settle legal questions about wrongdoing [6] [3]. Crucially, the supplied reporting and public records in these sources are fragmented: there is no single, authoritative public list provided here of every U.S. citizen ever killed or illegally detained by ICE, and many death reports focus on noncitizens or are still under investigation, so definitive legal determinations of "illegal" detention or lethal wrongdoing are often pending or disputed [8] [7] [1].
5. Bottom line — what can be stated with confidence
From the supplied sources, named U.S. citizens cited as killed or killed in encounters with federal immigration or border agents include Renée Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti as prominent examples reported in multiple outlets [3] [5]; named U.S. citizens reported as detained or allegedly wrongly detained/deported in the compiled material include George and Esmeralda Doilez, Godinez and Napolés, and the case cited for Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos [4] [1]. Beyond these named incidents, the sources document systemic concerns, many noncitizen deaths in custody, and credible advocacy and congressional inquiries into wrongful detentions of citizens, but they do not provide a comprehensive, validated master list that would satisfy a demand for "all" such U.S. citizen cases without further access to full ICE records and adjudicative outcomes [2] [9] [1].