How many people died in ice custody in 2026
Official reporting shows a small but concerning tally of custody in the opening weeks of 2026: government releases documented four deaths during January 3–9, a subsequent ICE notice announced a death ...
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Fatalities in ICE custody and during federal immigration enforcement operations in 2025-2026
Official reporting shows a small but concerning tally of custody in the opening weeks of 2026: government releases documented four deaths during January 3–9, a subsequent ICE notice announced a death ...
Across the past five years the public record shows two conflicting patterns: and () have had a sharp increase in deaths in custody and high‑profile fatal shootings in 2025–2026, even as analyses of of...
Federal, congressional and international actors have opened multiple lines of inquiry into the in custody in 2025, ranging from agency-conducted medical and oversight reviews to demands for and congre...
The most reliable count reported across major outlets and oversight groups is that in custody during 2025, making it the agency’s deadliest year in roughly two decades . That figure is drawn from ICE ...
Three of the four names listed in the question — Luis Beltran Yanez‑Cruz, and — died while in custody in the first 10 days of 2026, and reporting shows differing causes and levels of official culpabil...