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2025 March

2025-03-01 Although the bodycam footage wasn’t discovered until March of 2026, DPS released footage of a fatal ICE shooting on South Padre island where ICE agents shot and killed a 23-year-old man Ruben Ray Martinez. The footage contradicted what the ICE officers initially reported when they claimed the man tried to hit them with his car.

2025 July

2025-07-12 A California farmworker fell 30 feet and died during an ICE raid.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-farmworker-dies-immigration-raid-rcna218467

2025 September

2025-09-12 During ICE presence in Franklin Park Illinois an agent shot Silverio Villegas Gonzalez to death. DHS maintained that the suspect dragged an agent with their car, yet video footage available has not substantiated any of those claims. Onlookers took footage of agents pulling the man’s lifeless body out of a car. Some news sources stated agents were not wearing bodycams.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/16/investigate-death-of-mexican-national-during-ice-stop

https://abc7chicago.com/post/questions-raised-use-deadly-force-shootings-chicago-area-immigration-enforcement-wake-minnesota-ice-shooting/18369408/

https://www.reuters.com/world/ice-officer-kills-man-chicago-suburb-during-arrest-attempt-2025-09-12/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn839xqdn5po

2025-09-18 A 42-year-old man died in ICE custody, making it the fourteenth death up to this date. In-custody statistics had been difficult to obtain because nobody knew the whereabouts of their loved ones.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/22/headlines/42_year_old_man_dies_in_ice_custody_in_long_island

2025 December

2025-12-31 ICE fatally shot 43-year-old Keith Porter on New Year’s Eve. DHS alleged Porter was firing an AR 15 at ICE agents, while citizens and family reported that Porter was firing celebratory shots into the air to ring in the New Year.

https://wordinblack.com/2026/01/ice-agent-killed-black-man-los-angeles-why-no-arrest/

2026-01-04 By this date 32 people had died in ICE custody and there had been 9 officer-involved shootings that have been made public.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline

https://www.pogo.org/investigates/ice-inspections-plummeted-as-detentions-soared-in-2025

2026 January

2026-01-07 ICE fatally shot and killed a 37-year-old mother of three Renee Nicole Good, claiming she hit an ICE officer with her vehicle. Trump posted on social media that the officer was hit by the vehicle and lucky to be alive. Video shows the officer walking away from the scene unscathed and doing something on his phone immediately after killing Renee Nicole Good. The body cam footage showed her final words, “It’s okay, I’m not mad at you” while someone in the background called her a “fucking bitch”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/ice-agent-minneapolis-bodycam-footage

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/09/renee-goods-wife-releases-statement-about-ice-shooting

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/us/renee-nicole-good-minneapolis-ice-shooting-hnk

2026-01-09 The DOJ blocked Minnesota law officials from investigating the shooting of the 37-year-old mom Renee Nicole Good.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/politics/investigation-minneapolis-ice-shooting-deviates-police-shooting-playbook

2026-01-09 News media reported that a neighbor saw federal agents removing evidence from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/10/fbi-investigation-minneapolis-ice-shooting-renee-nicole-good#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20fact%20that%20Pam%20Bondi’s,in%20the%20shooting%20with%20him.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnvqrxl0xo

2026-01-12 Leavitt defended ICE after the Renee Nicole Good murder, “This administration will continue to stand wholeheartedly by the brave men and women of ICE, including that officer in Minneapolis who was absolutely justified in using self-defense against a lunatic who was part of a group – an organized group – to interject and to impede on law enforcement operations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khfNzAKC8Wg

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/karoline-leavitt-takes-shocking-swipe-200459362.html

SUB WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/trump-shooting-renee-good-ice.html

2026-01-13 Six prosecutors and four DOJ civil rights leaders quit after the DOJ tried to conduct a criminal investigation into Renee Nicole Good’s widowed spouse.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/doj-attorneys-resign-minneapolis-ice-shooting

https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5689158-minneapolis-ice-agent-resignation/

2026-01-23 ICE fatally shot and killed 37-year-old VA nurse Alex Pretti when he tried to help a woman surrounded by ICE. According to sources, Pretti did have a concealed carry license. DHS reported they killed Pretti because he threatened to shoot ICE agents, but several witnesses and captured video showed Pretti only holding his phone. Six ICE agents tackled Pretti and removed what appeared to be a gun from him, pepper sprayed him, held him face-down and then shot him several times in the back. After the shooting, DHS refused to share evidence with local investigators and blocked Minnesota law enforcement from the crime scene.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/25/nx-s1-5687875/minneapolis-shooting-minnesota-ice-alex-pretti-dhs-investigation

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-alex-pretti-shot-killed-border-patrol-agent-minneapolis-rcna255792

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20zjyxep99o

2026-01-23 Just one hour after agents executed Alex Pretti, Pam Bondi sent a letter to Tim Walz stating the Trump administration would remove ICE from the State if Minnesota met demands to hand over voter files, SNAP data, and repealed its sanctuary policy.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/26/nx-s1-5688964/minnesota-data-bondi-letter

https://people.com/pam-bondi-full-letter-tim-walz-after-alex-pretti-shooting-11892085

2026-01-24 Stephen Miller took to social media to call Alex Pretti an assassin, then later backtracked, stating the CBP mishandled the scene and violated protocol.

https://x.com/StephenM/status/2015132322840850461

https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/stephen-miller-admits-cbp-may-have-violated-protocol-in-fatal-alex-pretti-shooting

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-trump

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting

2026-01-24 Stephen Miller was implicated of encouraging DHS tactics that contributed to confrontations preceding the death of Alex Pretti.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/trump-administration-alex-pretti-shooting-statements

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/politics/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-trump

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcpe9YceyyQ

https://newrepublic.com/post/208362/stephen-miller-orders-ice-alex-pretti-death

https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/trump-aide-miller-says-minneapolis-agents-may-have-breached-protocol/article_ccdc814a-ee9c-5a33-8577-0322697b789b.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-shooting.html

2026-01-26 After the two public executions in Minnesota (Pretti and Good) Dan Bovino was demoted from command. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live-updates/dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-under-scrutiny-bovino-exits-minnesota-after-alex-pretti-killing/

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/greg-bovino-dhs-investigations-deportations-ice-b2940552.html

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/03/17/gregory-bovino-to-retire-from-us-border-patrol-in-march

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75e24grnv3o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzXB8-019R4

2026-01-26 Despite a judicial warrant, federal agents blocked the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from accessing the scene to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/investigations-minneapolis-shooting-death-alex-pretti-129581708

https://time.com/7358403/nra-trump-clash-gun-carrying-rights-pretti-federal-agents/

2026-01-28 After ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, Trump drew criticism from the NRA and Gun Owners of America when he doubled down on Pretti’s murder, saying he should not have carried a firearm at the protest.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/trump-administration-gun-rights-groups-minnesota-shooting

2026-01-28 Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller pointed the finger at each other for the Alex Pretti execution.

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-bites-back-after-ice-barbie-blame-game/

 

2026 February

2026-02-03 Trump and Republican figures like Jeanine Pirro, Dan Bongino, Kristi Noem and Kash Patel admonished Alex Pretti for carrying a concealed weapon, stating nobody should be bringing guns to a protest. For context, Kash Patel tried to help Rittenhouse sue Biden and the media for character assassination even though he brought guns across state lines to a protest. In August 2020 Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old at the time, drove from Illinois to Wisconsin with an AR-15 and shot three protesters in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting. He was hailed by Conservatives as a defender of Second Amendment rights and was acquitted on all charges including first-degree intentional homicide.

https://www.aclu-wi.org/justice-jacob-blake/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest_shooting

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trigger-happy-kyle-rittenhouse-breaks-ranks-with-trump-after-nurse-killing/

https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/pirro-anyone-who-brings-a-gun-to-dc-should-count-on-going-to-jail/

2026-02-03 JD Vance refused to apologize for amplifying claims about Alex Pretti as an assassin.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/04/jd-vance-alex-pretti-assassin-terrorist-miller-noem/88516567007/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15524833/JD-Vance-refuses-apologize-Alex-Pretti.html

https://x.com/StephenM/status/2015133481261474030

2026-02-16 DHS announced it would not be sharing evidence with local Minnesota investigators on the Alex Pretti murder.

https://abc7news.com/post/fbi-tells-minnesota-investigators-share-evidence-alex-pretti-shooting-minneapolis-federal-immigration-agents/18609180/#:~:text=Homeland%20Security’s%20investigative%20agency%20was,BCA%20said%20in%20its%20statement.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fbi-will-not-share-access-to-alex-pretti-evidence-with-minnesota-officials-bca-says/

2026-02-26 ICE detained then released blind Nurul Amim Shah Alam miles away from home and didn’t notify his family. The family reported him missing and then found him dead outside in the cold.

https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/

2026 March

2026-03-02 Haitian asylum seeker Daffy Michelle’s body was found in a Pittsburg bus stop where ICE had left her. Allegheny County Medical Examiners wrote, “The opinion of the forensic pathologist in this case is that Ms. Michel was a vulnerable adult, suffering from untreated severe mental health issues and a significant language barrier when she was released from federal custody on Federal 27.” It was deemed a homicide in June.

TIMESTAMP 4:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EL6rRBfTx8&list=WL&index=1

https://courthousenews.com/a-womans-hypothermia-death-in-pittsburgh-after-her-release-from-ice-custody-is-ruled-a-homicide/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u24qQPsQ9c

https://www.wtae.com/article/daphy-michel-haitian-asylum-seeker-death-ruled-homicide/71573343

2026-03-12 Trump accused South Africa of white genocide and invited white South Afrikaners to migrate to the US. By March many of the white South Afrikaners returned to South Africa, citing better cost of living, less racism, and less violence. One South Afrikaner stated, “People are being shot in broad daylight. American citizens are being shot and killed. I don’t want to live in a place like this”.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-white-south-africans-are-persecuted-some-are-returning-better-life-2026-03-11/

https://www.latintimes.com/some-white-south-africans-are-reportedly-leaving-us-return-home-amid-safety-concerns-i-dont-595588

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/11/world/trump-white-south-africans-better-life/  

2026 April

2026-04-21 As of April, the death count of people in ICE custody for the first 4 months of 2026 reached at least 17.

https://www.reuters.com/world/eleven-people-died-us-immigration-custody-this-year-ice-says-2026-04-18/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-report-deaths-detainees-rcna340802

2026-04-29 ICE agent Jonathan Ross returned to duty after Renee Nicole Good’s killing.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/29/headlines/daily_beast_ice_agent_who_shot_and_killed_renee_good_back_on_duty

https://www.wionews.com/world/jonathon-ross-ice-agent-resumes-duty-renee-good-minneapolis-investigation-stalled-1777535084892/amp

https://newrepublic.com/post/209615/ice-agent-killed-renee-good-minneapolis-new-job

2026 May

2026-05-01 Another person died in ICE custody, this time a suspected suicide at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/georgia-ice-detention-death-cuban-immigrant

https://phr.org/news/the-18th-death-and-fifth-death-by-suicide-in-ice-custody-this-year-spotlights-harms-of-solitary-confinement-phr/

https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/man-dies-in-ice-custody-at-georgia-detention-center-cause-under-investigation/

https://www.wabe.org/man-dies-in-georgia-immigration-detention-center-second-georgia-ice-death-this-year/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cuban-immigrant-died-ice-custody-georgia-notice-us-lawmakers-says-2026-05-01/

2026 June

2026-06-19 Sixty-three-year-old Felix Alcordo Rodriguez died in ICE custody at a Laredo Texas detention center operated by the for-profit company CoreCivic.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/29/headlines/mexican_immigrant_dies_at_for_profit_ice_jail_in_texas_the_20th_such_death_in_2026

2026-06-26 The UN called for prompt and independent investigations into ICE detention centers due to skyrocketing deaths.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/un-deaths-immigration-custody-human-rights-law

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167816