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Number of deaths in ICE custody during the period from 2009 to 2017.
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 sources reviewed do not provide a definitive count of civilians who were directly killed by agents during ’s time in office; advocacy and watchdog reports instead document detainee , with one join...
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 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...
Reporting shows a involving federal immigration agents during the first year of ’s second administration, with media tallies documenting at least 16 incidents in late 2025 and early 2026 ; by contrast...
Short answer: reporting shows that recent years have seen dozens of custody and operations — most sources identify at least 32 deaths in ICE custody during 2025 and dozens more across multi‑year studi...
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...
Official tallies and independent reviews show a significant, contested record of deaths in custody during the administration: advocacy groups and watchdogs cite roughly 56 confirmed in‑custody deaths ...
The most consistently reported figure in the provided sources is that 56 individuals died while in custody during the administration (2009–2017) — a total cited by advocacy groups and repeated in medi...
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...
Multiple independent reports based on ICE records and FOIA documents count while in custody during (2009–2017) . and internal ICE death-review releases document a subset of those deaths and highlight ...
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...
treats an “in‑custody” death as any death of a person while under its custody — including deaths at facilities and those who die in hospitals while still detained — and requires rapid internal notific...
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 most widely cited tally for the Obama administration is that in custody during ’s two terms; that figure is reported by advocacy groups that reviewed ICE death records and was repeated in media an...
The best-supported count in the reporting provided is that while in custody during the administration (2009–2017), a figure reported by the , , the and cited across multiple outlets . That tally comes...
A definitive, public tally of how many people were shot by during is not available in the reporting provided; investigative efforts have revealed gaps in ICE’s historical use-of-force records and requ...
Public records and advocacy reporting count in custody during the , and the documented causes—where records are publicly available—span suicides, acute medical events such as strokes and intracranial ...
Most independent reporting and rights groups conclude that for people in custody in two decades, with journalists and NGOs naming 32 deaths; official ICE notices and some contemporaneous tallies were ...