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Person who died in 2026 in ICE custody
Three of the four names listed in the question — Luis Beltran Yanez‑Cruz, and — died while in custody in the first 10 days of 2026, and reporting shows differing causes and levels of official culpabil...
A definitive, exhaustively sourced list of " citizens that have been killed or detained illegally by " cannot be produced from the documents supplied because the reporting is partial, contested, and f...
2025 was described by multiple outlets as the deadliest year for people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in two decades, with reporting placing the toll at roughly 31–32 death...
A wave of reporting and official inquiries shows citizens have been detained, questioned, or otherwise swept up by and other agents since the 2025 enforcement surge, producing a mix of releases, dismi...
Official records do not establish that was killed by in 2026: ICE reported his death on Jan. 14 as a “presumed suicide” after staff found him unconscious at , and the agency says the cause remains und...
Available reporting indicates that Geraldo Lunas Campos — a 55-year-old detainee at Camp East Montana in El Paso — died on Jan. 3 while in ICE custody and that at least one fellow detainee alleges he ...
No credible reporting in the supplied sources documents that “” was killed by today; the recent confirmed fatal incidents involving federal immigration agents occurred earlier in January 2026, most pr...
The reporting collected by news outlets, human-rights groups and documents during , but there is no single, definitive public list of every person killed “due to ICE” and many individual cases remain ...
Available mainstream and monitoring sources do not support the claim that nine people have died “from ICE” in 2026; contemporary reporting shows discrepant counts—most commonly six to eight deaths tie...
There is no single, authoritative count in the supplied reporting of how many deaths in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since 2000 have been officially classified as homicides o...
Independent, external autopsies or truly external investigations into the 30–32 deaths in custody in 2025 are limited and uneven: families, advocacy groups and local medical examiners have produced or...
Medical examiners have publicly classified one death of a person in ICE custody as a homicide in the 2025–2026 timeframe: the January 3, 2026 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at Camp East Montana in El P...
died on Jan. 3, 2026, at ICE initially said he experienced “medical distress” and later characterized the episode as a suicide attempt, while the death a homicide caused by asphyxia from neck and tors...
custody deaths in calendar year 2025 reached at least 32 people, the highest annual total in roughly two decades according to multiple news investigations and agency tallies . Causes reported by autho...
’s publicly posted detainee-death reports state that agency staff must notify supervisors within 12 hours of any in-custody death and that specific death reports are to be posted publicly under the ap...
Of the custody in 2025, one death has been formally ruled a homicide by a medical examiner — the case of — while there is no authoritative, publicly released count of how many deaths were officially a...
In reported the deadliest year for detainees in two decades, with roughly 30–32 deaths; official causes listed by ICE and reported media included suicides, suspected organ failure (liver and/or kidney...
A county medical examiner’s classification—, suicide or natural causes—reshapes the public record and often becomes the hinge for in deaths that occur in immigration custody, prompting fresh scrutiny,...
ruled the Jan. 3 death of a , citing asphyxia from neck and torso compression and noting he became “unresponsive while being physically restrained by law enforcement,” language reflected in the . That...
Since 2020 families and advocacy groups have used a mix of civil lawsuits, and public complaints to demand accountability for custody, with the most visible actions driven or amplified by national gro...