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The available reporting indicates that no U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were killed in 2025; coverage from investigative outlets and advocacy groups documents multiple civilian...
Deaths in ICE custody have risen sharply in fiscal year (FY) 2025: reporting outlets and advocacy tallies put the count at roughly 20–23 deaths through late 2025, the highest annual total since the ea...
Available sources show that deaths in ICE custody have risen sharply in 2025, with multiple tallies putting FY2025 deaths at between at least 21 and 27 people and media noting this is the deadliest ye...
ICE and DHS reporting and multiple news analyses show hundreds of thousands of removals in 2025, with a large share of those detained or deported lacking criminal convictions. For example, a Marshall ...
Available reporting tallies at least four migrants who died in U.S. immigration custody in the first ten days of 2026 and at least four people killed in shootings by federal immigration agents during ...
There is no credible evidence in current reporting that Venezuela has carried out a systematic program to "empty its prisons and insane asylums" and send those people to the United States; multiple fa...
Donald J. Trump’s second-term clemency record includes at least one mass pardon on Jan. 20, 2025 that covered “nearly 1,600” people tied to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach, and by November 2025 report...
Available reporting shows ICE detention counts rose sharply from the Biden years into 2024–2025: TRAC and Vera data put the end‑of‑FY numbers at roughly 25,134 (FY2022), 32,743 (FY2023), ~37,000 (end ...
Claims that foreign governments “emptied out” prisons and shipped inmates into the United States are not supported by independent reporting or public evidence as a broad, systematic practice; fact‑che...
Available reporting shows the Obama administration directed ICE to prioritize targeted removals — focusing on criminals and national-security threats rather than broad, indiscriminate workplace or str...
Available reporting and government releases document ICE arrest and detention totals but provide only limited direct breakdowns by sex; the official ICE statistics pages and recent reporting focus on ...
Multiple 2025 incidents framed as “lynchings” or likened to historical lynching drew national and international attention: reported killings abroad such as the killing of a Palestinian American near R...
Reporting by ProPublica and multiple outlets finds that ICE and other federal immigration agents have, during 2025 enforcement operations, detained more than 170 people who were U.S. citizens — includ...
The most consistent, verifiable finding in recent reporting is that 2025 was the deadliest year for people in ICE custody in two decades, with independent outlets and advocacy groups citing roughly 30...
Nick Fuentes was charged with misdemeanor battery in late 2024 after an incident in which he allegedly pepper-sprayed a woman at his suburban Chicago home; reports show he was arrested and released an...
The claim that most people deported from the United States in 2025 were convicted of serious crimes is by the available data: multiple analyses of ICE statistics show that a large share of detainees a...
A number of U.S. states have laws that allow chemical castration to be required as a condition of parole or sentence for certain sex offenses, typically those against young children; states repeatedly...
Donald Trump first made the most-cited remark about Mexican immigrants—“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best… They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”—...
Congress’s 2025 funding package dramatically expanded ICE’s available resources: watchdogs and advocacy groups report additions that bring ICE-level funding into the tens of billions—advocates cite fi...
ICE does not publish a single, final “total removals” figure for calendar 2025 in the materials provided here; multiple analysts estimate FY2025 removals in the hundreds of thousands — Migration Polic...