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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 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 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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Independent reporting in the provided sources does not supply a definitive count of shootings by agents between 2009 and 2016; available investigations and summaries in these materials focus on shooti...
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 ...
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...
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...
The short answer: the advertised "up to $50,000" ICE signing bonus is generally not a one‑time lump sum and is commonly structured as phased payments tied to multi‑year service commitments — often des...
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 ...
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...
No publicly available reporting in the provided documents gives a definitive number of recruits who actually received the full from ; official and news sources uniformly describe the sum as a maximum ...
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...
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...
Legal observers and “ Watch” volunteers are organized community networks trained to document , alert neighbors, connect detainees to lawyers and provide post-event support; they operate through hotlin...