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ICE does not operate a single, agency-wide uniform; enforcement teams frequently adopt tactical or plainclothes approaches while specialized units have written uniform standards, detention staff and a...
on New Year’s Eve in by an off‑duty ; federal and local statements say the agent encountered Porter after hearing gunfire and that an exchange of gunfire occurred, while Porter’s family and advocates ...
Public reporting and company disclosures show that both and own and control multiple facilities that are now in use or targeted for reopening, but open-source accounts vary between naming companies as...
Independent reporting in the provided sources does not supply a definitive count of shootings by agents between 2009 and 2016; available investigations and summaries in these materials focus on shooti...
's public footprint is shaped not simply by where immigrants live but by a mix of agency priorities, state and local cooperation, detention capacity, targeted deployments and data limits—so the visibl...
Counts of deaths in and detention are kept in separate official reports and frequently differ because the agencies operate in different parts of enforcement, use different detention systems, and apply...
There is no authoritative, agency-wide total for how many citizens have been detained by across all administrations; public records and oversight reports offer only fragmentary counts and case lists ....
operates a sprawling, decentralized detention system composed of federally run Service Processing Centers, hundreds of local jails and county lockups that house ICE detainees under contract, and priva...
The year 2025 saw an unprecedented spike in deaths in ICE custody—reported totals reached 32 deaths for the year according to civil liberties groups and press compilations —and multiple reporting thre...
A patchwork of national and local rapid‑response hotlines and legal collaboratives stand ready to assist people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ranging from Freedom for Imm...
The single that produced the largest public release of was the multi-year FOIA suit filed after an April 2011 request, a three‑year litigation effort that culminated in a federal court order forcing d...
agents this year are being prioritized for placement in several major metropolitan field offices—explicitly , , , and —alongside a heavy recruitment push for the field office that oversees multiple de...
, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, was fatally shot in on January 7, 2026 during an encounter with a agent identified in reporting as . The shooting has become the focal point of intense local and national...
Public reporting shows that both and operate a long list of detention facilities around the — named sites include (CO), /Delaney Hall (NJ), and (CA), (TX), City (CA) and several facilities in , , and ...
policy formally permits case-by-case custody decisions that consider humanitarian factors — including serious medical needs and caregiving responsibilities — and the agency’s public guidance and repor...
Multiple reputable outlets report that for people in custody in two decades, with counts clustering around 30–32 deaths; however, the available reporting and public records in the provided sources do ...
agents are presented by the agency and federal sources as a tool for protecting national security and public safety by enforcing more than 400 federal statutes related to immigration, customs, trade a...