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The expansion of ICE detention capacity and its potential impact on the number of deaths in custody.
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 and report a of ICE’s workforce — from roughly 10,000 officers and agents to more than 22,000 after a large 2025–2026 recruitment push — and they say thousands of those hires have been . None of t...
The most authoritative public tallies show in custody during 2025, the deadliest calendar year for the agency in more than two decades (matching a 2004 record) . Independent reporting then documented ...
Publicly available and materials provide agency-wide headcounts, program-level staffing totals, and lists of field and regional offices, but they do not publish authoritative, line-by-line staffing ro...
The short answer: ’s baseline FY2026 budget request sits at roughly $11.3 billion, but lawmakers and one-time reconciliation and supplemental pots have widened the debate over whether ICE’s effective ...