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The methods and timing of ICE's reporting on custody deaths.
A precise, year-by-year tally of deaths “officially reported” by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from 2003 to the present exists in primary ICE records but is not summarized in the repo...
The available reporting does not produce a single, undisputed tally of people who died under custody during ’s first term (2017–2020), and independent researchers and watchdogs give different slices o...
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...
’s own public tallies for the opening months of ’s second term are inconsistent across official outlets but fall in roughly the 18–32 range depending on the date and which ICE posting is cited; indepe...
A mix of explicit policy directives and rapid personnel changes announced or implemented in 2025–2026 has already shifted ’s posture in ways that matter for : expanded authority to operate in “sensiti...
There is no reliable, published tally in the provided reporting of how many U.S. citizens with no criminal record ICE has detained since the start of President Trump’s second term; journalism and data...
The most direct figure in the reporting reviewed says in custody during ’s first presidential term (2017–2021) as cited in a ional-staffed press release referenced by . Reporting and public datasets, ...
Multiple official and investigative sources disagree about both the total number of removals in 2025 and the share of those removed who had criminal convictions, but the strongest contemporaneous data...