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Since January 2025 detention has grown rapidly and shifted geographically: , , , and have been the primary anchors of the expanded system, with Texas—particularly facilities—housing the largest daily ...
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...
The most consistent contemporary counts show custody in calendar year 2025, a two‑decade high that matched the previous record from 2004 (; ) . Independent trackers and advocacy groups report somewhat...
The most consistent count in available reporting puts the number of people who died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in calendar year 2025 at 32, a toll described by several o...
The most reliable count reported across major outlets and oversight groups is that in custody during 2025, making it the agency’s deadliest year in roughly two decades . That figure is drawn from ICE ...
Since January 2025, reporting shows enforcement activity on two levels: concentrated, high-profile federal surges — most visibly in — and a broader expansion of detention and local cooperation that to...
has been the subject of sustained scrutiny for his central role shaping hardline immigration and enforcement policies in the , and investigators have sought his testimony — but there is no public reco...
A precise year-by-year tally "from 2003 to 2025 according to reports" cannot be produced from the documents provided here because the primary official ICE compilation available in these sources covers...
A complete, year‑by‑year list of deaths in ICE custody can be compiled by systematically harvesting ICE’s Detainee Death Reporting page and the agency’s FOIA Library, then cross‑validating those items...
As of January 2026, Stephen Miller is not publicly known to be a defendant in a criminal prosecution, but his name is entangled in multiple legal fights and investigations: his critics allege he orche...
Federal judges have formally found the U.S. government provided false or seriously defective information in a substantial number of cases; recent reporting and expert analyses document at least where ...
Public reporting and official tallies show multiple deaths of people described as Hispanic and Black in encounters with and related federal immigration enforcement in 2025–2026, and those deaths have ...
The public record does not provide a month-by-month tally of facility inspection reports for 2025 that can be verified from the available sources; independent analysis shows a sharp overall drop in po...
A complete year-by-year tally of deaths in ICE custody from 2003–2025 cannot be compiled from the reporting provided; DHS/ICE has made systematic public death reports only since FY2018 and advocates’ ...
Reporting shows a ProPublica investigation — widely republished — that a firm with ties to Kristi Noem received money connected to a $220 million DHS advertising campaign, and watchdogs and legal expe...
No reliable source in the reporting provided documents any citizens being killed by agents during calendar year 2025; the deaths tied to ICE that year were overwhelmingly people who died in custody or...
Federal reporting and court records show multiple external lawsuits, judicial rulings and public scrutiny tied to operations led by , but public, detailed accounts of formal internal or CBP disciplina...
In , recorded its deadliest year since 2004 with roughly 31–32 people dying in custody, and reporting and watchdog reviews identify ), ) and ) as among the facilities that have held the most deaths hi...
A precise, year-by-year tally of ICE-reported in-custody deaths from 2004 through 2025 is not available in the documents supplied; the reporting does, however, establish a few confirmed data points an...
and a formal reporting policy, but the reporting available in the supplied sources does not include a consolidated, source-verifiable year-by-year table for 2003–2025; independent outlets and watchdog...