Documenting lives lost to ICE & CBP enforcement since January 2025
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The Wall Street Journal identified 13+ instances of immigration officers firing at or into civilian vehicles since July 2025. At least 5 people shot were U.S. citizens.
Most U.S. police agencies have banned shooting at moving vehicles — it's dangerous, inaccurate, and risks bystanders. Safer alternatives: record the plate, pursue later.
"The tactics you're seeing used by ICE and CBP are absolutely not in line with best practices in American policing." — Art Acevedo, former police chief of Houston, Miami
In multiple cases, DHS claims were contradicted by video evidence and charges against victims were dismissed.
The Washington Post reported (Jan 27, 2026) that Trump aides declared all 16 DHS shootings since July "justified" before any investigations were completed. In 4 of 10 cases where people were shot, charges were later dropped or dismissed after evidence contradicted DHS claims.
On Feb 13, 2026, two ICE agents were suspended and face DOJ criminal investigation for making "untruthful statements" under oath about the Julio Sosa-Celis shooting in Minneapolis.
At least 21 people have died in ICE custody in 2026 (through June) — on pace to surpass the all-time record of 32 set in 2004. 2025 was the deadliest year since then, with 31 deaths. December 2025 was the deadliest month ever recorded.
ICE's detained population peaked above 70,000 in 2026 — a record. ICE halted payments to its medical-care contractors in Oct 2025 and did not resume them for months, even as the population kept breaking records.
ICE regularly "releases" individuals shortly before death to avoid counting them in official reports. The ACLU sued ICE in 2021 for concealing deaths.
Example: A transgender asylum-seeker in New Mexico was given parole papers while in a hospital bed after being denied medical care for weeks. She died 4 days later.
After El Paso's medical examiner ruled Geraldo Lunas Campos' death a homicide, ICE began sending subsequent Camp East Montana deaths to an Army hospital instead of the county medical examiner — avoiding independent autopsies.
After a wave of killings and bipartisan pressure, President Trump fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in March 2026 — the first Cabinet secretary out — reassigning her to a new "Envoy for the Shield of the Americas" role. The Senate confirmed Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) as her replacement on a 54–45 vote (Mar 2026).
Federal courts have begun pushing back: judges have rebuked masked ICE arrests as a "secret-policing" regime, ordered additional agent training after ruling warrantless arrests violated a court order, and stayed ICE arrests at immigration courthouses. Multiple states have advanced bans on agents concealing their faces.
Immigration agents have shot at least 39 people since Jan 2025, killing 11. As of mid-2026, no agent had been convicted in any of these killings.
See the disturbing parallels between 1930s Nazi Germany and today's America.
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