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Last update: 18 July 2026

Body count: 53

This is the tip of the iceberg. More may have happened and we don’t know. This also does not account for the incredible suffering of those who were abducted alive and are locked up under unsupervised conditions, subjected to torture, malnutrition, illness, sexual assault, and without any legal representation or chance of a fair trial.

The list

(Does not include people murdered and killed on the streets by ICE)

Genry Ruiz Guillén

State: Florida
Age: 29
Date of death: 23 January 2025
Cause of death: Died at a Hialeah hospital after a breathing emergency; held at Krome. Miami-Dade medical examiner listed complications of schizoaffective disorder; toxicology showed an excessive mix of antipsychotics and antidepressants
Source: The Guardian

Serawit Gezahegn Dejene

State: Arizona
Age: 45
Date of death: 29 January 2025
Cause of death: Died at a Phoenix hospital; held at Eloy detention center after reporting elevated heart rate and fatigue, with a possible lymphoma diagnosis
Source: The Guardian

Maksym Chernyak

State: Florida
Age: 44
Date of death: 20 February 2025
Cause of death: Brain haemorrhage / apparent stroke after vomiting and seizure activity at Krome; medical experts questioned the delay before staff called 911
Source: Miami Herald

Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez

State: Puerto Rico
Age: 44
Date of death: 23 February 2025
Cause of death: Died at Centro Médico hospital, San Juan, two days after being taken into CBP custody; reported leg pain. Cause not released
Source: The Guardian

Brayan Garzón-Rayo

State: Missouri
Age: 27
Date of death: 8 April 2025
Cause of death: Died at Phelps County jail, Rolla. Officials told his mother it appeared to be suicide; ICE has not confirmed an official cause
Source: St. Louis Public Radio

Nhon Ngoc Nguyen

State: Texas
Age: 55
Date of death: 16 April 2025
Cause of death: Acute pneumonia, per ICE. Held at the El Paso processing center; ICE offered release only if family could fund round-the-clock acute care, which they could not
Source: The Guardian

Marie Ange Blaise

State: Florida
Age: 44
Date of death: 25 April 2025
Cause of death: Died at Broward Transitional Center, Pompano Beach. Her son said she reported chest pains and abdominal cramps and was refused a physician; ICE says she declined offered blood pressure medication. No official cause released
Source: WLRN Public Media

Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado

State: Georgia
Age: 68
Date of death: 5 May 2025
Cause of death: Became unresponsive in a transport van en route to Stewart detention center with highly elevated blood pressure; died at the scene. First ICE detainee to die in transit in at least a decade. Cause under investigation
Source: The Guardian

Jesus Molina-Veya

State: Georgia
Age: 45
Date of death: 7 June 2025
Cause of death: Found unresponsive in his cell at Stewart detention center, Lumpkin. ICE called it an apparent suicide
Source: Ledger-Enquirer

Johnny Noviello

State: Florida
Age: 49
Date of death: 23 June 2025
Cause of death: Found unresponsive at the Bureau of Prisons federal detention center, Miami. Cause under investigation; family has not received an autopsy report
Source: The Globe and Mail

Isidro Pérez

State: Florida
Age: 75
Date of death: 26 June 2025
Cause of death: Died at a Florida hospital of undetermined causes, three weeks after being apprehended at a community centre and taken to Krome North
Source: Miami Herald

Tien Xuan Phan

State: Texas
Age: 55
Date of death: 19 July 2025
Cause of death: Died at Methodist Hospital Northeast, Live Oak, after seizures, vomiting and unresponsiveness at the Karnes County processing center. Cause under investigation
Source: The Guardian

Chaofeng Ge

State: Pennsylvania
Age: 32
Date of death: 5 August 2025
Cause of death: Suicide, four days after entering ICE custody, per ICE and Pennsylvania State Police. Family has filed a FOIA suit against DHS seeking answers
Source: ABC News

Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas

State: Arizona
Age: 32
Date of death: 31 August 2025
Cause of death: Died after detention at the Central Arizona Florence correctional complex; family believes he contracted Covid-19 there. ICE said cause unknown, under investigation. A DACA recipient brought to the US at age five
Source: Univision

Oscar Rascon Duarte

State: Arizona
Age: 58
Date of death: 8 September 2025
Cause of death: Died at Promise Hospital, Mesa, after transfer from the Florence staging facility for late-stage Alzheimer’s, kidney cancer and hepatitis C
Source: The Guardian

Santos Banegas Reyes

State: New York
Age: 42
Date of death: 18 September 2025
Cause of death: Found not breathing in his cell at Nassau County correctional center, hours after being apprehended. ICE’s preliminary cause was liver failure complicated by alcoholism; family is contesting it and requested an independent autopsy
Source: WKYT

Ismael Ayala-Uribe

State: California
Age: 39
Date of death: 22 September 2025
Cause of death: Fell ill at Adelanto detention center with cough and fever, then further complications; died after hospital transfer. ICE said cause “still under investigation”. A DACA recipient brought to the US at age five
Source: The Guardian

Norlan Guzman-Fuentes

State: Texas
Age: 37
Date of death: 24 September 2025
Cause of death: Shot by a gunman who opened fire on the Dallas ICE field office where he was being held
Source: CBS News

Huabing Xie

State: California
Age: Not reported
Date of death: 29 September 2025
Cause of death: Died at El Centro Regional Medical Center, Calexico, after an apparent seizure and unresponsiveness at the Imperial Regional Detention Facility
Source: LAist

Miguel Ángel García Medina

State: Texas
Age: 31
Date of death: 29 September 2025
Cause of death: Died of gunshot wounds five days after a gunman fired on the Dallas ICE field office while he was shackled in a government van outside. Referred to by ICE as Miguel García-Hernández
Source: The Guardian

Leo Cruz-Silva

State: Missouri
Age: 34
Date of death: 4 October 2025
Cause of death: Apparent suicide while detained at Ste. Genevieve County jail, per ICE
Source: St. Louis Public Radio

Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh

State: Florida
Age: 67
Date of death: 11 October 2025
Cause of death: Cardiac arrest (preliminary, per physician), after being taken from Krome detention center to a local hospital with a high fever and becoming unresponsive
Source: The Guardian

Gabriel Garcia Aviles

State: California
Age: 54
Date of death: 23 October 2025
Cause of death: Died at Victor Valley Global Medical Center about a week after CBP detained him during a Costa Mesa roving patrol. ICE cited natural causes and alcohol withdrawal complications; family disputes this, saying he was healthy before detention and that Adelanto staff refused to connect them
Source: L.A. Taco

Kai Yin Wong

State: Texas
Age: 63
Date of death: 25 October 2025
Cause of death: Complications from heart valve repair surgery, following heart failure and possible pneumonia. Held at the South Texas ICE processing center, Pearsall, then airlifted to San Antonio
Source: The Guardian

Francisco Gaspar-Andrés

State: Texas
Age: 48
Date of death: 3 December 2025
Cause of death: Suspected kidney and liver failure, per ICE. Held at Camp East Montana, Fort Bliss; repeatedly seen for bleeding gums, fever, jaundice and hypertension before hospital transfer, dialysis and palliative care. His widow disputes ICE’s claim of underlying conditions
Source: El Paso Times

Pete Sumalo Montejo

State: Texas
Age: 72
Date of death: 5 December 2025
Cause of death: Septic shock from pneumonia, following shortness of breath, hypoxia and anaemia at the Montgomery processing center. Died at Valley Baptist Medical Center, Harlingen
Source: The Guardian

Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani

State: Texas
Age: 48
Date of death: 6 December 2025
Cause of death: “Natural causes” per ICE, citing chronic respiratory, liver and kidney conditions. Held more than five months at the Prairieland detention center, Alvarado; died at a Fort Worth hospital
Source: The Guardian

Jean Wilson Brutus

State: New Jersey
Age: 41
Date of death: 12 December 2025
Cause of death: “Suspected natural causes” per ICE, one day after being taken into custody at Delaney Hall, Newark. Sen. Andy Kim toured the facility the next day and called for its closure after detainees described poor medical care and raw meat in meals
Source: The New York Times

Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir

State: Pennsylvania
Age: 46
Date of death: 14 December 2025
Cause of death: “Medical distress” per ICE. He had filed an emergency federal motion for medical relief three days before he died at the Moshannon Valley processing center, Philipsburg
Source: Daily Voice, via The Guardian

Delvin Francisco Rodriguez

State: Mississippi (reported by the Guardian as New Orleans)
Age: 39
Date of death: 14 December 2025
Cause of death: Found without a pulse at Adams County correctional center on 4 December; failed a brain function test and was removed from a ventilator at his family’s wishes. He was due to be deported to Nicaragua on 13 December
Source: The Guardian

Nenko Stanev Gantchev

State: Michigan
Age: 56
Date of death: 15 December 2025
Cause of death: Found unresponsive on his cell floor during routine checks at the North Lake processing center, Baldwin. Cause under investigation. His wife said he had type 2 diabetes and had complained for months about deteriorating health
Source: The Guardian

Geraldo Lunas Campos

State: Texas
Age: 55
Date of death: 3 January 2026
Cause of death: Ruled homicide by asphyxia by the El Paso County Medical Examiner. Witnesses reported guards choked him at Camp East Montana, Fort Bliss, as he said he couldn’t breathe. ICE first described it as a suicide attempt gone wrong, then changed its account
Source: NIPNLG

Luis Gustavo Nuñez Caceres

State: Texas
Age: 42
Date of death: 5 January 2026
Cause of death: Congestive heart failure at HCA Houston Healthcare, Conroe, after multiple life-threatening emergencies at the Joe Corley processing center
Source: NIPNLG

Luis Beltrán Yañez-Cruz

State: California
Age: 68
Date of death: 6 January 2026
Cause of death: Hospitalised with chest pains from the Imperial Regional Detention Facility, Calexico; died at John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, Indio
Source: NIPNLG

Parady La

State: Pennsylvania
Age: 46
Date of death: 9 January 2026
Cause of death: Found unresponsive in his cell; died of brain and organ failure at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia. Came to the US at age two
Source: NIPNLG

Victor Manuel Díaz

State: Texas
Age: 36
Date of death: 14 January 2026
Cause of death: Found unconscious in his room at Camp East Montana, El Paso. ICE reported presumed suicide; his family disputes this. Arrested in Minneapolis eight days earlier
Source: NIPNLG

Heber Sánchez Domínguez

State: Georgia
Age: 34
Date of death: 14 January 2026
Cause of death: Found hanging by the neck and unresponsive in his cell at the Robert A. Deyton facility, Lovejoy, seven days after being detained following an arrest for driving without a licence. Mexico’s Consulate General requested an investigation
Source: NIPNLG

Lorth Sim

State: Indiana
Age: 59
Date of death: 16 February 2026
Cause of death: Found unresponsive in his cell at the Miami Correctional Facility, Bunker Hill
Source: NIPNLG

Jairo García-Hernández

State: Florida
Age: 27
Date of death: 16 February 2026
Cause of death: Collapsed unexpectedly and died at Larkin Community Hospital Behavioral Health Center, Hollywood, more than a year after being taken into custody
Source: NIPNLG

Alberto Gutiérrez Reyes

State: California
Age: 48
Date of death: 27 February 2026
Cause of death: Admitted to Victor Valley Global Medical Center from Adelanto with chest pain and shortness of breath, became unresponsive and died. LA City Council member Eunisses Hernandez said his family reported he had been denied medical care in custody
Source: NIPNLG

Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi

State: Louisiana
Age: 59
Date of death: 1 March 2026
Cause of death: Cardiac arrest at a Mississippi hospital. Remained detained at the Louisiana ICE Processing Center, Angola, despite several chronic health conditions
Source: NIPNLG

Emmanuel Cleeford Damas

State: Arizona
Age: 56
Date of death: 2 March 2026
Cause of death: Hospitalised from Florence Correctional Center reporting shortness of breath; died in a Phoenix ICU of causes unknown, per ICE. His family reported he died from an untreated toothache and related infection
Source: NIPNLG

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal

State: Texas
Age: 41
Date of death: 14 March 2026
Cause of death: Died in the Dallas Field Office holding room less than 24 hours after being detained. Cause still unclear. Previously worked with the US military in Afghanistan
Source: NIPNLG

Royer Pérez Jiménez

State: Florida
Age: 19
Date of death: 16 March 2026
Cause of death: Presumed suicide at Glades County Detention Center, Moore Haven, per ICE. Official cause under investigation
Source: NIPNLG

José Guadalupe Ramos-Solano

State: California
Age: 52
Date of death: 25 March 2026
Cause of death: Found unresponsive in his bunk at Adelanto ICE Processing Center; pronounced dead at Victor Valley Global Medical Center. Cause not determined. Diagnosed at intake with diabetes, hyperlipidemia and hypertension
Source: NBC News

Tuan Van Bui

State: Indiana
Age: 55
Date of death: 1 April 2026
Cause of death: Found unresponsive at the Miami Correctional Facility, Bunker Hill, and declared dead at the scene. Cause under investigation
Source: NIPNLG

Alejandro Cabrera Clemente

State: Louisiana
Age: 49
Date of death: 11 April 2026
Cause of death: Found unresponsive at Winn Correctional Center, Winnfield; declared dead at a local hospital. Cause not released
Source: AILA

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt

State: Florida
Age: 27
Date of death: 12 April 2026
Cause of death: Found in his cell at the Miami Federal Detention Center in what ICE described as an apparent suicide attempt. Official cause under investigation
Source: AILA

Denny Adán González

State: Georgia
Age: 33
Date of death: 28 April 2026
Cause of death: Found unresponsive at Stewart Detention Center, Lumpkin, reportedly in solitary confinement. Suspected suicide; official cause under investigation
Source: NIPNLG

Mamuka Artmeladze

State: Louisiana
Age: 43
Date of death: 4 June 2026
Cause of death: Found unresponsive at Winn Correctional Center; pronounced dead at a local medical center. Official cause pending autopsy
Source: NIPNLG

Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez

State: Texas
Age: 63
Date of death: 19 June 2026
Cause of death: Found unresponsive at Webb County Detention Center, Laredo; pronounced dead at a local medical center. Official cause pending autopsy
Source: NIPNLG

Adrian Andreas Florian

State: Texas
Age: 85
Date of death: 24 June 2026
Cause of death: Admitted to Valley Baptist Medical Center from Port Isabel Detention Center, Los Fresnos, for dementia concerns alongside high blood pressure, cognitive impairment and ulcers. Official cause pending autopsy
Source: NIPNLG

Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva

State: Georgia
Age: 45
Date of death: 13 July 2026
Cause of death: Found unresponsive on a bus while being transferred from Irwin County Detention Center to the Folkston D. Ray processing center. ICE reported suspected cardiac arrest. His family says he was not receiving his medication in detention
Source: NIPNLG

List of people who died inside ICE concentration camps since January 20th 2025

List of people who died inside ICE concentration camps since January 20th 2025

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