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2025 was described by multiple outlets as the deadliest year for people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in two decades, with reporting placing the toll at roughly 31–32 death...
Reporting shows that the federal government and ICE are actively expanding detention capacity: new facilities have opened, ICE is converting or contracting to use warehouses and other sites, and draft...
Available reporting indicates that Geraldo Lunas Campos — a 55-year-old detainee at Camp East Montana in El Paso — died on Jan. 3 while in ICE custody and that at least one fellow detainee alleges he ...
Local enforcement patterns in places like Utah and El Paso show concentrated, aggressive arrest activity that feeds into — and in some places strains — a national detention apparatus that swelled to r...
Available reporting from September 2025 documents multiple high-profile incidents in which U.S. citizens were , but no single source in the provided material offers a comprehensive tally of all wrongf...
custody has surged to record levels since the start of fiscal year 2026, with single‑day counts reported around 68,990–69,000 detainees and national tallies cited as high as roughly 73,000 in mid‑Janu...
Medical examiners have publicly classified one death of a person in ICE custody as a homicide in the 2025–2026 timeframe: the January 3, 2026 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at Camp East Montana in El P...
ICE maintains written procedures for investigating detainee deaths, including a 2021 policy that mandates rapid internal reporting, medical reviews and public “Detainee Death Reports” within statutory...
Independent autopsies and external investigations into 2025 detainee deaths are limited and uneven: several families have requested independent autopsies and some medical examiners have signaled homic...
Federal prosecutions or convictions of ICE personnel for abuse or civil‑rights violations are rare in the recent reporting but there are multiple high‑profile allegations and civil complaints tied to ...