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The number of deaths in ICE custody in the year 2025
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 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...
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...
Official and independent reporting converge on a grim short answer: while in custody in calendar year 2025, and multiple outlets reported several additional in-custody deaths in the first days of 2026...
2025 saw the most deaths in ICE custody since 2004, with reporting aggregators documenting 31–32 fatalities and ICE confirming numerous ongoing probes into those deaths . Public reporting shows a patc...
Independent analyses and reporting show different ways to measure custody: by raw counts, by deaths per year, or by deaths per detainee over an administration; those choices change the headline. Raw d...