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The number of deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody during the Obama administration.
The most widely cited tally for deaths in custody during the presidency is , a figure reported by a coalition report titled and repeated in media and advocacy accounts . That number has become a short...
The most defensible, widely reported figure for deaths in custody during the first year of ’s second term is — the highest total in more than two decades, according to multiple news organizations trac...
The most consistent tally in the reporting assembled for this brief finds that while in custody during , a figure produced by a FOIA-based review cited in the joint report Fatal Neglect and repeated b...
The definitive public repository for ) detainee death reports is ICE’s “” page on ICE.gov, where individual Detainee Death Reports (DDRs) and related announcements are posted pursuant to a congression...
Reported, documented deaths that occurred in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody between 2021 and 2024 total 26 people — five in 2021, three in 2022, seven in 2023 and eleven in 2024 — b...
Public records and advocacy reports indicate that people died in U.S. immigration detention and during forcible removal operations in the 2001–2008 period, with investigative FOIA releases and human-r...
The available reporting provided does not contain a documented count of deaths in ICE custody that occurred during ’s two terms (1993–2001); primary datasets and watchdog reports cited here start in t...
A precise, single tally of custody since the agency’s creation in 2003 cannot be confidently produced from the documents provided here because sources report different time windows, use different coun...