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Deaths that occurred in ICE custody during the Obama administration
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...
Across multiple contemporaneous reports, the most defensible, sourced count separates two categories: deaths of people detained by while in custody, and people killed by federal immigration agents (sh...
A direct head‑to‑head tally of “deaths during deportation” by presidential administration is not available in the documents provided, so any definitive ranking is impossible from these sources alone; ...
A precise, publicly verified count of agents during is not available in the reporting provided; records are fragmentary and have required litigation to obtain, and existing summaries conflate differen...
The past year saw a sharp spike in deaths tied to operations, culminating in roughly 30–32 reported in 2025 and a rush of deaths and high‑profile killings in early 2026 that advocates and reporters de...
Two separate phenomena are commonly conflated in debates about deportation under : people who died while held in custody, and people who were deported and later killed after return to their home count...
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...
The question breaks into at least two measurable parts: people who died while in immigration custody during the years, and people who were killed after being deported and returned to dangerous countri...
Official sources and investigative reporting do not produce a single, verifiable tally of how many custody have been formally attributed to negligence or mistreatment by official death-in-custody inve...
Reported deaths connected to custody surged in recent years, with at least 32 people recorded as having died in ICE custody in 2025, but the specific number that can be classified as “murdered by ICE”...