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The number of deaths in ICE custody from 2018 to 2025 and whether they were preventable.
Official and watchdog reporting indicates died while in custody over the four years of , with 12 deaths recorded in fiscal year 2024; reporting practices, lags, and differing tallies mean that exact a...
Available reporting does not show any verified, new deaths of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents caused by civilians or undocumented immigrants in the past 12 months, while the year...
’s official and media tallies show a sharp rise in in‑custody deaths in 2025 — and by some counts 32 — making it the agency’s deadliest year in roughly two decades (ICE/media reporting) . Available so...
The public record assembled by reporters, advocacy groups and ICE itself does not contain a complete, year-by-year table of official causes of death in ICE custody for 2018–2025 or a definitive count ...
A reliable, continuous public record of -reported begins with Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, per the appropriations reporting requirement; ICE’s own “” portal publishes individual death reports from FY2018 fo...
There is no single, verified tally in the provided reporting that answers how many undocumented immigrants were killed during ’s first presidency (2017–2021); official and journalistic sources in the ...
From the available public reporting, precise, independently compiled year-by-year counts of custody for each year 2009–2017 are not fully reproduced in the supplied sources, but official ICE and third...
Independent news investigations published between January and March 2026 documented at least two U.S. citizens detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a case reported by The Guardi...
Between 2003 and 2017, public records and academic reviews show several years with clearly elevated numbers of deaths in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, most notably around 200...
The public record does not support a single, definitive count of all people who have died while ever in custody because agencies, advocacy groups and reporters use different definitions and datasets; ...
From the record assembled by researchers and advocacy groups, whom reported as dying in custody between Jan. 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2021 are the baseline figure most independent investigators use for th...
No reliable count of deaths "in federal immigration custody during ’s presidency" appears in the supplied reporting; the documents provided focus on deaths under (which was created after Clinton left ...