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Official and watchdog reporting indicates died while in custody over the four years of , with 12 deaths recorded in fiscal year 2024; reporting practices, lags, and differing tallies mean that exact a...
Available reporting shows hundreds to thousands of complaints of sexual abuse in ICE and DHS custody since 2010, but independent investigations, watchdogs, and news outlets document only a small numbe...
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...
Nonprofit organizations and coalitions provide hotlines, phone funds, pro bono and low‑cost legal representation, detention monitoring and post‑release services to people in ICE custody; examples incl...
documented 698 cases it characterizes as "" from U.S. immigration detention between 2017 and 2021, but there is no single, authoritative public tally of "missing" detainees maintained by or that recon...
ICE operations have, in multiple documented instances during recent crackdowns, resulted in U.S. citizens and people identified as white being stopped, restrained, and held by immigration agents, some...
Available sources document persistent concerns and multiple lines of statistical evidence pointing to racial disparities in ICE arrests and detention since 2010: advocacy groups and research projects ...
’s facility-level reports show 922 sexual‑assault allegations from Sept 2018–Apr 2022 with 118 (12.8%) found “substantiated,” a published figure that journalists and researchers have used to describe ...
Since 2010 there has been a persistent stream of allegations that , contract guards and medical staff sexually abused people in custody, prompting a mix of civil lawsuits, criminal complaints and admi...
operates a sprawling, decentralized detention system composed of federally run Service Processing Centers, hundreds of local jails and county lockups that house ICE detainees under contract, and priva...
Since 2010 a small but visible set of federal prosecutions have been filed against current or former employees for — cases highlighted by criminal charges or guilty pleas such as and — yet these prose...
A patchwork of community-run rapid‑response hotlines exists around the country, but authoritative, county‑level contact details for the five most populous U.S. counties are uneven in the reporting pro...
There is no single, public tally published by or that answers “” in the narrow phrasing the question uses; federal datasets and watchdog dashboards report overall juvenile checks, , and total ICE book...
A patchwork of national and local rapid‑response hotlines and legal collaboratives stand ready to assist people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ranging from Freedom for Imm...
The fastest way for family to locate someone in ICE custody is ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS): searches work by A‑Number (8–9 digits) or biographical data and are available 24/7; ICE aims...
Nonprofit legal help for people detained by ICE exists but is fragmented: national groups like the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) operate a Detention Project with a dedicated phone line and ...
The public record does not contain a single, undisputed tally of every person who has died while in custody since the agency’s creation in 2003; watchdog groups, academic researchers and ICE themselve...
NGO trackers such as , , and civil‑rights groups including the routinely produce counts and breakdowns of immigration detention that differ from ’s published statistics because they use different snap...
The number of people who have died while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since ICE’s formation in 2003 is not a single, undisputed figure: government FOIA lists and agency re...
defines an “” in custody by invoking the framing—that disappearance occurs when a state or its agents refuse to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty—and documents it through interviews, surveys and ...