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The number of deaths in ICE custody in 2025, which was the deadliest year in two decades for the agency.
Reporting compiled by national outlets and advocacy groups shows a sharp and well-documented rise in deaths tied to U.S. immigration enforcement after the Trump administration’s intensified crackdown:...
The available reporting does not support a single, definitive tally that answers “how many times ICE killed innocent people,” because deaths involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fall in...
custody deaths rose sharply during the first year of second term: reporting and monitoring groups count between the mid‑20s and 32 deaths in 2025, making it the deadliest year for ICE detainees in rou...
The clearest, directly reported figure for deaths in ICE custody under the Trump administration’s intensified removal operations is that 32 people died in ICE custody in calendar year 2025 — a total t...
The most consistent contemporary counts show custody in calendar year 2025, a two‑decade high that matched the previous record from 2004 (; ) . Independent trackers and advocacy groups report somewhat...
Reporting on immigration agents during the ’s 2025–2026 enforcement surge is inconsistent but converges on a stark picture: multiple shootings by and other officers were documented (16 to at least 28 ...
Reporting shows a clear rise in deaths connected to during ’s second term, but the exact tally depends on how “died in custody” is defined and which reporting period is used; major outlets put the 202...
Counts of deaths in custody spiked to the highest absolute level in more than two decades in — roughly 30–32 deaths reported by media trackers and advocates and acknowledged in ICE notices — coincidin...
Official agency tallies and independent reporters disagree by a small but important margin: ’s public data and mainstream wire reports settled on “” deaths in custody for calendar year 2025, while inv...
in custody during calendar year 2025, the deadliest year for detainees in more than two decades, a tally reported by multiple outlets and reflected in ICE figures and NGO tracking . ICE and major medi...
The count of custody has spiked in 2025 to the highest level since 2004, with ICE and multiple news outlets reporting roughly 30–32 deaths for the calendar year as detention populations surged — a ris...
became a focal point in January 2026 after multiple fatal incidents involving federal immigration agents—most prominently the shootings of and in —which spurred lawsuits, large protests and a federal ...
Medical examiners have publicly classified one death of a person in ICE custody as a homicide in the 2025–2026 timeframe: the January 3, 2026 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at Camp East Montana in El P...
A precise, authoritative tally of how many people "directly killed" under cannot be produced from the reporting provided; there are multiple documented fatal uses of force by immigration agents and a ...
The most consistently reported figure for deaths in custody during the first year of the is that , with roughly 30–32 people dying while in ICE custody; different outlets and advocacy groups report sl...
custody deaths in calendar year 2025 reached at least 32 people, the highest annual total in roughly two decades according to multiple news investigations and agency tallies . Causes reported by autho...
Three types of public and quasi-public trackers cover deaths connected to U.S. immigration and customs work: agency-maintained memorials and line-of-duty pages (ICE’s Fallen Officers/Wall of Honor), n...
Available reporting does not produce a single, uncontested tally of “people who have died as a result of Trump’s raids”; instead, contemporaneous records and press investigations document multiple, ov...
Of the custody in 2025, one death has been formally ruled a homicide by a medical examiner — the case of — while there is no authoritative, publicly released count of how many deaths were officially a...
During the first year of ’s second term (largely the 2025 calendar year), reporting shows a sharp rise in deaths of people while in custody: most mainstream outlets and ICE-linked tallies put the numb...