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The most reliable contemporary trackers and mainstream reports show that 30– while in custody during the 2025 calendar year, with several outlets and watchdogs listing 32 deaths and ICE’s own public a...
Stephen Miller is being discussed as potentially facing criminal exposure for multiple, distinct reasons: alleged conflicts of interest tied to a personal stake in Palantir, policy choices tied to fam...
A precise, single tally of custody since the agency’s creation in 2003 cannot be confidently produced from the documents provided here because sources report different time windows, use different coun...
Manufacturers such as describe as highly directional hailing and warning systems intended primarily for long‑range communication and public safety, and they publish operational guidance — including ex...
The available reporting shows a pattern of widespread and serious abuses inside —medical neglect, preventable deaths, rampant use of solitary confinement, overcrowding, and sharply —that many human-ri...
The public record assembled by reporters, advocacy groups and ICE itself does not contain a complete, year-by-year table of official causes of death in ICE custody for 2018–2025 or a definitive count ...
The available reporting does not produce a single, undisputed tally of people who died under custody during ’s first term (2017–2020), and independent researchers and watchdogs give different slices o...
Human-rights groups and congressional inspectors have documented a constellation of specific detention facilities, including widespread medical neglect and preventable deaths, physical and sexual assa...
A growing body of international legal and expert opinion concludes that Israel’s conduct in Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide, while Israel and allied voices reject that characterization and...
Federal agents in the commonly deploy such as tear gas (various “lachrymators”), pepper spray (oleoresin capsicum, OC), and irritant payloads in pepper‑ball projectiles during crowd operations, and co...
Yes. Multiple independent reports and news outlets document dozens of people who have died while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in recent years — for example, a 2024 ACLU/Ph...
Since 2004 the clearest independent forensic scrutiny of preventable deaths in custody has come not from but from coalitions of civil-society investigators and watchdog reporters—most notably the 2024...
FOIA-driven tallies compiled by NGOs and researchers consistently record more custody than ICE’s public disclosures, with discrepancies driven by withheld or delayed records, ICE practices of “releasi...
Medical organizations and public-health authorities converge on a simple, evidence‑based field protocol: stop the exposure, move to fresh air, remove contaminated clothing, and wash thoroughly (especi...
2025 has emerged as the deadliest year in decades for people in ICE custody: reporting shows at least 20 deaths in 2025 so far, making it the highest total since the early 2000s (peaks: 32 in 2004; 21...
ICE custody saw a sharp rise in deaths in 2025, with multiple outlets reporting at least 15–25 deaths so far this year and ICE’s detained population rising toward ~60–66,000 — both trends that advocat...
ICE reported 12 deaths in its custody for fiscal year (FY) 2024, up from 4 in FY2023 and 3 in FY2022, and human-rights and public-health reviews identify medical neglect, suicide and COVID-19 as leadi...
treats a "" as any death that occurs while an individual is detained by the agency and has formalized processes for notification, internal review, and public reporting, but those definitions and the t...
’s June 2016 public release of 18 Office of Detention Oversight (ODO) death reviews — covering deaths from May 2012 through June 2015 — exposed repeated, systemic weaknesses in : delayed emergency res...
From the available public reporting, precise, independently compiled year-by-year counts of custody for each year 2009–2017 are not fully reproduced in the supplied sources, but official ICE and third...