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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been directly or indirectly associated with multiple deaths in 2025: at least and several incidents involving lethal force tied to ICE operations or ...
Official and investigative reporting indicates that 2025 was the deadliest year for people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in roughly two decades, with mainstream outlets and...
The year 2025 saw an unprecedented spike in deaths in ICE custody—reported totals reached 32 deaths for the year according to civil liberties groups and press compilations —and multiple reporting thre...
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...
, 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...
Between 2010 and 2016, and coordinated protests by people held in immigration detention centers were widespread, with NGO and FOIA-based reporting documenting hundreds to over a thousand participants ...
Community members who want to know whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has information about them can use federal FOIA/Privacy Act channels and agency-specific portals, but must fir...
By federal counts and advocacy tallies, immigration detention in FY2023 was large and geographically concentrated: roughly 273,000 people were booked into ICE custody during fiscal year 2023, and ICE ...
ICE’s detained population and the system’s contractual bed capacity diverged in 2024: reporting and advocacy groups put the average daily population around the high 30,000s (ICE reported 39,062 on Dec...
There is substantial, consistent reporting in 2025 of multiple deaths in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody — with public tallies indicating at least ten deaths in the first half o...