Since President Donald Trump took office for a second term in January 2025, USA TODAY’s tracker shows at least 48 people have died in ICE detention facilities. According to ICE’s data, 56 people died in ICE custody between 2009 and 2017, during the Obama administration. From 2017 to 2020, under the first Trump administration, the number was 52. In the 500 days between President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025 and June 4, 2026, 52 people died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in the United States. 52 people died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody during the first 500 days of President Trump’s second term, reflecting a soaring mortality rate. ICE so severely limits. Advocacy and research reports from the Obama era list 56 deaths in ICE custody during 2009–2017, a figure used in a high-profile NGO report that documented systemic medical-care failures [1] [5]. The list of deaths in ICE custody (2003–present) chronicles verified fatalities among non-citizen detainees held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the agency's establishment in March This is a chronological list of reported deaths in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention. It is based mainly on US federal government records which are in the public domain. According to a list from ICE, a total of 67 detainees died during Obama's eight years of presidency (2009–2017). The number of deaths in ICE custody are already higher under Trump, as the. Last month, Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights released a report calculating that in the first 500 days of Trump’s second administration, 52 people died in ICE custody. The most defensible, widely reported figure for deaths in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody during the first year of President Trump ’s second term is 32 people who died in 2025 — the highest total in more than two decades, according to multiple news organizations tracking ICE-reported figures and investigative.