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ICE Detainee Deaths 2003-2019

The cumulative total of deaths of ICE detainees from 2003 through 2019, including the challenges in obtaining a definitive year-by-year tally due to the availability and consistency of records from ICE and other sources.

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How many people died in ICE custody each fiscal year from 2003 to 2019 according to ICE and independent tallies?

A definitive, year-by-year tally from Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 through FY2019 is not available in a single, easily citable table in the public record supplied here; ICE maintains FOIA lists and began rou...