2025 was ICE's deadliest year in two decades!

32 people died in custody of ICE!

This is taken from The Guardian dated January 4th, 2026:

Thirty-two people died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in 2025 – making it the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades, as the Trump administration moved to detain a record number of people.

Some of those who died in detention had arrived in the US recently, seeking asylum. Others had arrived years ago, some as young children. Some had been apprehended on criminal charges or had served time for convictions; others had been picked up in the administration’s indiscriminate ICE raids.

They died of seizure and heart failure, stroke, respiratory failure, tuberculosis or suicide. Some died at ICE detention centers and field offices, others after they had been transferred to hospitals, but were still under ICE custody. In some cases, their families and lawyers have alleged, they died of neglect, after repeatedly trying and failing to get medical care.

The number of deaths, 32, matched the previous record, set in 2004. These deaths occurred as the Trump administration ramped up its immigration operations, detaining a record number of people in December.

The agency was holding 68,440 people in detention in mid-December; nearly 75% of them had no criminal convictions. December was also the deadliest month in ICE custody – six people died.

This article goes on to listing all 32 people who died or were killed in ICE’s custody. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline

Here is the most complete public list of reported ICE detention deaths by name and date from January 1, 2025 through mid‑January 2026, drawn from federal records and aggregated trackers.

2026 deaths (January)

• 9 January 2026 – Parady La

• 6 January 2026 – Luis Beltran Yanez‑Cruz

• 5 January 2026 – Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres

• 3 January 2026 – Geraldo Lunas Campos

2025 deaths (January–June)

• 23 January 2025 – Genry Ruiz Guillen

• 29 January 2025 – Serawit Gezahegn Dejene

• 20 February 2025 – Maksym Chernyak

• 23 February 2025 – Juan Alexis Tineo‑Martinez

• 8 April 2025 – Brayan Rayo‑Garzon

• 16 April 2025 – Nhon Ngoc Nguyen