Deaths in ICE custody

This register lists one row for each death that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) posts on its Detainee Death Reporting page with a date of death between Jan 20, 2025 and Nov 8, 2026. Each row is built from ICE’s linked Detainee Death Report (DDR) PDF. It was cross-checked against the Human Rights Watch / Physicians for Human Rights report Dying in Detention (Jun 25, 2026), AILA’s Deaths at Adult Detention Centers list of ICE press releases, and the NIPNLG memorial list (as of Oct 27, 2026). Page and PDFs accessed Nov 8, 2026. The ICE page carried a banner saying that, because of the lapse in federal funding, the site “will not be actively managed.” The page says it was last updated Sept 23, 2026.

Counting rules - Inclusion: a death is a roster row only if ICE’s page lists it. That covers ICE’s FY2025 (from Jan 23, 2025, the first death after the inauguration) and FY2026. The page has no FY2027 section. Three FY2025 deaths before Jan 20, 2025 (Sanchez-Castro, Oct 27, 2024; Kataria, Nov 1, 2024; Amechand, Dec 16, 2024) are excluded. - ICE’s page includes deaths outside detention facilities: one person shot by an ICE officer during an arrest, one person struck by a car while fleeing a vehicle stop, and two detainees killed in the Dallas field-office sniper attack. HRW/PHR count the same way (“all deaths reported through ICE’s Detainee Death Notification system”). Deaths during enforcement that ICE did not report, and deaths after release, are excluded from the rows and listed separately below. - Name is given as ICE’s page lists it. Where the DDR spells the name differently, the DDR form is shown in brackets. Age, nationality, facility and cause come from the DDR. Where the DDR is silent, the source is named in the cell. - Cause: ICE’s DDRs rarely state a cause of death. “No cause stated” means the DDR gives only the narrative of events, which is summarized after the semicolon. Findings by medical examiners or HRW are attributed in the cell. - Days in custody: ICE does not state this figure. It is computed here from the start of ICE custody given in the DDR to the date of death. The starting event is noted where it differs from an ICE book-in. - Notification: the date of ICE’s news release, from AILA’s compilation of ICE press releases (the releases themselves were not reopened). “Within 48 hours” means the release came within 2 calendar days of the death. HRW/PHR use a 48-hour window. ICE’s page says it “strives to post a news release … within two business days,” so the business-day figures are given in the summary. - Ledger status: checked by grep on Timeline.md on Nov 8, 2026. [L] means the death is the subject of its own entry (linked). [T] means the death is named, or identified by date, inside another or aggregate entry. [N] means the death is not found by name or date. - FY = federal fiscal year (Oct 1–Sept 30).

Roster

Summary

Rows: 57. All 57 DDR PDFs were downloaded and read.

Deaths per fiscal year (ICE’s page, from Jan 20, 2025) | FY | On ICE’s page (roster rows) | Further deaths ICE announced but has not posted (below) | Total known | |—|—|—|—| | FY2025 (from Jan 20, 2025) | 21 (24 for the full FY) | 0 | 21 | | FY2026 | 36 | 2 (Marchena-Marchena, Sept 18; Curo-Churata, Sept 29) | 38 | | FY2027 (to Nov 8, 2026) | 0 (no section) | 4 (Oct 17, 23, 24, 29) | 4 | | Term to date | 57 | 6 | 63 |

Cross-checks: - HRW/PHR count 52 deaths from Jan 20, 2025 to Jun 4, 2026, and 39 in the first year (Jan 20, 2025–Jan 19, 2026). The roster gives 52 and 39 for the same windows, and HRW’s 39 named first-year deaths match the roster’s first 39 rows one-to-one. - NPR (Sept 2, 2026) calls Wei “the 57th death … since the start of President Trump’s second term, according to ICE’s detainee death notifications,” which matches the 57 rows. - By calendar year, ICE’s page lists 33 deaths in 2025 (Jan 23–Dec 15) and 24 in 2026 through Aug 23. Adding the six announced-but-unposted deaths gives 30 for 2026, which matches Latin Times calling Portillo-Zapata the “30th” death of 2026 on ICE’s log.

Causes as ICE’s DDRs describe them (ICE does not classify deaths, so these groups come from the DDR narratives) - ICE states a cause or preliminary cause: 5. Wei: hanging, suicide (death certificate). Ge: hanging, suicide (autopsy). Gaspar-Andres: alcoholic cirrhosis and cardiac hypertrophy (autopsy). Najafabadi: aortic valve disease (preliminary autopsy). Duarte Rascon: respiratory failure (preliminary). - Traumatic deaths during enforcement or violence: 4. Two were shot by the Dallas sniper (Guzman Fuentes, Garcia Hernandez). Villegas Gonzalez was shot by an ICE officer. Castro Rivera was struck by a vehicle while fleeing. - Use of force by staff during a self-harm attempt: 1 (Lunas Campos). The El Paso County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, per HRW. - Ligature or hanging described in the DDR: 11 (Rayo-Garzon, Molina-Veya, Ge, Cruz-Silva, Francisco Rodriguez, Diaz, Sanchez Dominguez, Perez Jimenez, Carbonell Betancourt, Adan Gonzalez, Wei). ICE’s DDRs record suicide as the manner of death for 2 (Ge, Wei) and “attempted suicide by hanging” for 1 (Francisco Rodriguez). The other 8 describe a ligature without stating the manner of death. HRW/PHR count 7 apparent suicides in the first year (Rayo-Garzon, Molina-Veya, Ge, Cruz-Silva, Francisco Rodriguez, Diaz, Sanchez Dominguez). The roster adds 4 after Jan 19, 2026 (Perez Jimenez, Carbonell Betancourt, Adan Gonzalez, Wei). One more hanging death after the page’s last update, Luis Sandoval (Oct 23, 2026), is listed below. - Medical or unexplained, with no cause stated: 38. Includes Tineo Martinez, whose toxicology showed cocaine. - These groups do not overlap except the first: Ge and Wei appear in both the stated-cause and ligature groups. Disjoint split of the 57: 4 traumatic + 1 use of force + 11 ligature + 3 medical with a stated cause (Gaspar-Andres, Najafabadi, Duarte Rascon) + 38 medical or unexplained = 57. - Short stays: 16 of the 55 deaths with a computable custody start came within 7 days of entering ICE custody, and 27 within 30 days. The median is 31 days.

Facilities with more than one roster death | Facility | Deaths | Names | |—|—|—| | Krome Service Processing Center, Miami, FL | 4 (5 counting Jairo Garcia Hernandez, whom AILA places at Krome) | Ruiz Guillen, Chernyak, Perez, Saleh | | Adelanto ICE Processing Center, Adelanto, CA | 4 | Ayala Uribe, Garcia-Aviles, Gutierrez Reyes, Ramos Solano | | Camp East Montana, Fort Bliss, El Paso, TX | 3 | Gaspar-Andres, Lunas Campos, Diaz | | ERO Dallas Field Office, Dallas, TX | 3 | Guzman Fuentes, Garcia Hernandez (sniper); Paktiawal (hold room) | | Moshannon Valley Processing Center, Philipsburg, PA | 2 | Ge, Abdulkadir | | Stewart Detention Center, Lumpkin, GA | 2 (+1 in transit to it; +1 after release) | Molina-Veya, Adan Gonzalez (Avelleneda-Delgado en route; Trejo Ricano after release) | | Winn Correctional Center, Winnfield, LA | 2 (+1 not yet posted) | Cabrera Clemente, Artmeladze (Marchena-Marchena, Sept 18, 2026) | | Miami Correctional Center, Bunker Hill, IN | 2 | Sim, Bui | | Delaney Hall Detention Facility, Newark, NJ | 2 (+1 after release) | Brutus, Lopez Cornejo (Chajon-Raxon after release) | | Imperial Regional Detention Facility, Calexico, CA | 2 | Xie, Yanez Cruz | | Eloy Detention Center, Eloy, AZ | 2 | Dejene, Duarte Rascon | | Federal Detention Center (BOP) Miami, FL | 2 | Noviello, Carbonell Betancourt | | Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex, Florence, AZ | 2 | Batrez Vargas, Damas |

Late notifications. 54 rows have an ICE news release date in AILA’s list. 35 of the 54 (65%) came more than 2 calendar days after the death, close to HRW/PHR’s finding that about 64% of notices were late. Counting business days under ICE’s own stated two-business-day goal, 26 of the 54 were late. The longest gaps were Garcia-Aviles (11 days), Dejene (9), Tineo Martinez and Florian (8 each), and Duarte Rascon (7). 3 rows have no release in AILA’s list: Villegas Gonzalez, Castro Rivera and Wei. NPR quotes an ICE statement on Wei, but its release date was not confirmed.

Ledger coverage: 7 [L], 13 [T] (7 of them December 2025 deaths identified only by date in ^2025-12-late-2), and 37 [N].

Deaths reported elsewhere but absent from ICE’s page

Other categories outside ICE’s count, not enumerated here: - Deaths after release. In June 2026 ICE rescinded its rule on reporting deaths within 30 days of release (NPR; NIPNLG), so these no longer appear on ICE’s page. An example is Nurul Amin Shah Alam (Buffalo, Feb 2026), whom Border Patrol released (ledger [T] ^2026-02-25-1). - Deaths from use of force in the community without an arrest. HRW/PHR say ICE “has not issued notices for all people killed by use of force in immigration enforcement operations.” See the shootings and force registers. - Deaths in CBP custody are not on ICE’s page.

HRW’s footnotes also cite Hugo Boror Urla. He died May 22, 2024, before the term began, and is out of scope.

Discrepancies flagged for the ledger

• ^2026-01-03-2 dates the third Camp East Montana death (Victor Manuel Diaz) Jan 18. ICE’s DDR gives Jan 14, and Jan 18 is the date of ICE’s news release.
• ^2025-12-late-2 says FY2025 had 25 deaths. ICE’s page lists 24 for FY2025, which is what ^2026-09-30-3 says. The same entry’s “Guardian: 31” calendar-2025 count compares with 33 on ICE’s page.
• Name variants: ICE’s page lists “Reyes, Banegas” where the DDR has REYES Banegas, Santos, and “Sachiwani, Shiraz Fateh Ali” where the DDR has SACHWANI. AILA notes that the press release and DDR for Miguel Angel Garcia Hernandez differ on the date of death (Sept 29 vs. 30). The roster uses ICE’s page date.
• Damas: NIPNLG says Florence Correctional Center and AILA says Florence Detention Center. The DDR says ICE moved him to the Central Arizona Florence Correctional Center on Oct 1, 2025.

Limits

• ICE’s page is stale. It was last updated Sept 23, 2026 and posts a death only after the DDR is ready. Six deaths ICE has announced by news release are missing (above), and no FY2027 section exists.
• Notification dates come from AILA’s compilation of ICE press releases. Individual ICE releases were not reopened. AILA shows announcement dates for several 2025 deaths, which were checked against DDR death dates. Business-day counts ignore federal holidays.
• Independent reporting: the outlets column cites sources opened in this pass. These are HRW/PHR for the 39 first-year deaths (its table names each one), NIPNLG for Feb–Aug 2026 deaths, and NPR for Wei. Outlet coverage of individual deaths beyond these was not opened. Investigation facts marked “(ledger)” are carried from Timeline.md and were not re-verified.
• No ACLU tally was opened. A search turned up no standalone ACLU per-death list, only references to an ACLU suit over deaths ICE did not disclose (not opened).
• Investigation status: ICE’s releases say each death is reported to the DHS OIG, and the ledger records an open DHS OIG review of systemic factors in deaths from Oct 2021 to Mar 2026 (^2026-09-30-3). No death-specific OIG findings were found. State medical-examiner findings are recorded only where a source reported them (Lunas Campos, Batrez Vargas, Ge).
• The DDR for Ge is an OCR’d IHSC mortality review memo, not the standard DDR. Its citizenship field reads “Chinese.”
• Facility operators are rarely stated in DDRs. They are given only where the DDR names them (GEO policy cited for Moshannon Valley; TransCor contract transport for Avelleneda-Delgado).

Sources

• ICE, Detainee Death Reporting and the 57 linked DDR PDFs (e.g., Wei, Ruiz Guillen), accessed Nov 8, 2026
• HRW/PHR, Dying in Detention (Jun 25, 2026); PDF
• AILA, Deaths at Adult Detention Centers
• NIPNLG, Mourning Those Who Have Died in ICE Custody (as of Oct 27, 2026)
• NPR, ICE detainee dies just hours after he was admitted into detention (Sept 2, 2026)
• CBS News Baltimore, Maryland man who offered to self-deport dies in ICE custody in Louisiana
• Latin Times, Venezuelan detainee dies after emergency hospitalization
• ICE news releases from search results (not opened): Curo-Churata, Andrade-Covarrubias, Sandoval, Jimenez Gutierrez, Portillo-Zapata, Marchena-Marchena