Your fact-checks will appear here
Available reporting does not document that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "killed" detainees as a matter of policy; instead, multiple investigations and civil-society reports count people w...
The most widely cited tally for deaths in custody during the presidency is , a figure reported by a coalition report titled and repeated in media and advocacy accounts . That number has become a short...
A coalition report published by the ACLU, Detention Watch Network and the National Immigrant Justice Center counted 56 people who died in ICE custody during the Obama administration, and highlighted t...
A straight head‑to‑head on deaths shows more reported deaths under the administrations than under , but the comparison is clouded by rising detention populations, incomplete reporting and agency pract...
custody deaths rose sharply during the first year of second term: reporting and monitoring groups count between the mid‑20s and 32 deaths in 2025, making it the deadliest year for ICE detainees in rou...
The count depends on what is being measured: in custody during the Obama administration according to a FOIA-based NGO report, while independent reporting has identified dozens of deportees who were mu...
ICE’s enacted base appropriations rose from roughly $6.8–$6.9 billion in FY2017 to about $8.4–8.7 billion by FY2024–FY2025 before Congress’s July 2025 reconciliation bill supercharged funding, produci...
The statement " c’est 56 morts sous la responsabilité de l’" is supported by a major NGO report that counted 56 deaths in ICE custody during the Obama administration, but official tallies and other re...
The most defensible, widely reported figure for deaths in custody during the first year of ’s second term is — the highest total in more than two decades, according to multiple news organizations trac...
The most consistent tally in the reporting assembled for this brief finds that while in custody during , a figure produced by a FOIA-based review cited in the joint report Fatal Neglect and repeated b...
Reporting in the provided corpus identifies only a few explicit funders or funding vehicles tied to anti‑ICE activism: the Open Society Foundations is reported as having financed related protest campa...
A precise, year-by-year tally of deaths “officially reported” by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from 2003 to the present exists in primary ICE records but is not summarized in the repo...
Official reporting shows a small but concerning tally of custody in the opening weeks of 2026: government releases documented four deaths during January 3–9, a subsequent ICE notice announced a death ...
Public records included in the provided reporting do not supply a definitive count of people who were directly killed by ICE agents during President Barack Obama’s two terms; the closest concrete figu...
saw at least in 2025, a toll that matched the agency’s deadliest year on record and made 2025 the highest‑mortality year in two decades . By contrast, recorded 56 deaths in ICE custody across 2009–201...
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...
The short answer: available reporting in the provided sources does not support the claim that ; independent advocacy groups and journalistic counts most commonly put the number of during the Obama yea...
The best-supported count in the reporting provided is that while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody during the , a figure reported by a coalition report based on documents and summar...
Available sources give multiple, conflicting figures for ICE’s annual budget depending on the date and how multi‑year reconciliation funds are counted: ICE’s official FY2026 request lists about $11.3 ...
Yes — the Obama administration expanded and used family detention to hold asylum-seeking mothers and children beginning especially in 2014, operating and opening large family residential centers while...