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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uniforms share many design features with other law enforcement gear—distinctive agency insignia, tactical patches, and regulated dress codes—but they hav...
in how detainee medical bills are handled by terminating the claims-processing arrangement effective Oct. 3, 2025, and by transitioning to a new third‑party administrator () that will not begin proces...
If you suspect someone is being held illegally by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), available reporting shows multiple oversight and complaint channels exist inside and outside DHS — inc...
— the joint 2016 report by the , and the — defines and tallies deaths by examining specific in-custody fatalities and the agency documents and inspections tied to them, focusing particularly on eight ...
The official budget documents list ’s enacted Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget at , supporting roughly 22,358 positions and about 21,688 full‑time equivalents (FTE) . Reporting and oversight documents not...
The publicly available documents do not contain a single, agreed line-by-line accounting in the form the question asks; the Department of Homeland Security presented a requested FY2024 ICE topline of ...
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...
treats an “in‑custody” death as any death of a person while under its custody — including deaths at facilities and those who die in hospitals while still detained — and requires rapid internal notific...
, public reporting and advocacy groups identified multiple repeatedly tied to —Port Isabel, Adelanto, Stewart, and several large contract facilities such as Krome and California City are named in cont...
Independent, external autopsies or truly external investigations into the 30–32 deaths in custody in 2025 are limited and uneven: families, advocacy groups and local medical examiners have produced or...
maintains an internal architecture for notifying, reviewing and publishing reports about detainee deaths — codified most recently in Directive 11003.5 and summarized on ICE’s detainee death reporting ...
does provide medical care to people in its custody through the , which staffs some facilities, sets medical standards, and pays for off‑site care when necessary . However, oversight gaps, staffing sho...
DHS oversight bodies use distinct but overlapping mechanisms to document and respond to sexual abuse complaints in ICE custody: the Office of Inspector General (OIG) receives, investigates, and refers...
Hospitals and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) coordinate through on-site ICE presence, hospital protocols, and the agency’s medical custody systems—while state laws and hospital legal teams ...