One-hundred five years, five months, and nineteen days ago legislation was passed allowing women the right to vote. It has been sixty-one years and seven months since there was some sort of acceptable equality in United States legislation. Only a year later on March 7, 1965 were rights once more threatened, in a peaceful protest known as “Bloody Sunday.” 

Only sixty years later did Trump reinforce I.C.E. and end Humanitarian Entry programs. Humanitarian entry programs include urgent or temporary access into the United States because of war, disaster, or medical need. January 20, 2025, was the beginning of the I.C.E overhaul.

2025 was I.C.E. ‘s deadliest year since it was first created back in 2003 with a total of 35 deaths including Silverio Villegas Gonzalez who was shot by an I.C.E. agent during a traffic stop on September 25, 2025. I.C.E. does not accurately publish and report deaths. In February 2025, I.C.E. failed to complete a detailed report of a drug smuggler who died in custody. Since October 2025, a total of eight individuals have been held in I.C.E. custody have died with delayed death reports. 

In 2018, Congress passed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Bill to mandate death reports within 90 days. For comparison, in Texas, drivers are allotted 90 days, or three months, to complete defensive driving to remove a traffic ticket from their driving record. 

2026 only began one month and 12 days ago. Since then, between six to nine people have wrongfully been murdered by I.C.E. agents and these are their stories. The information in this report was compiled from The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Vera, The Texas Tribune, and the offical I.C.E website. 

Geraldo Lunas Campos

Fifty-five year old Geraldo Lunas Campos died January 3rd. I.C.E. offeres reported the death as an attempted suicide with Campos resisting help. Campos’s four kids felt as though the death report wasn’t right.  After investigation, the death was ruled as homicide. The truth is, five guards held Campos down while he was handcuffed and one guard put an arm around Campos’s neck until he was unconscious. Deputy medical examiner, Dr. Adam Gonzalez, released the autopsy that noted signs of struggle, abrasions on the chest and knees, as well as hemorrhages on his neck. The final determined cause of death was asphyxia due to neck and torso compression. 

Alex Pretti

Thirty-seven year old nurse, Alex Pretti was shot and killed by I.C.E. agents on January 26th. Pretti is an ICU nurse for the Department of Veteran Affairs. The Trump administration originally stated that Pretti “approached US Border Patrol officers with a nine semi-automatic handgun” followed by I.C.E. agents attempting to disarm him. Video proof and bystander accounts note that in reality, Pretti was stepping in between an I.C.E. agent and a woman the agent had shoved to the ground moments before. Five agents proceed to tackle Pretti to the ground and shoot him before he can begin to help the woman. 

Deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security, Stephen Miller, set the initial reach of Pretti being an “assassin” who attempted to “murder federal agents.” 

The dangers of the misinformation of Pretti’s death quickly plagued social media and news headlines. Right-wing influencers including Alexander Muse and Nick Sorter spread false news on their X accounts that Pretti was “waiting for a firefight at a distance,” and he is an “illegal alien” that is, “armed and attempting to pull it on agents.” 

Keith Porter

December 31, 2025, an off-duty I.C.E. agent shot and killed forty-three year old Keith Porter. Porter had stepped outside to fire his gun into the air to celebrate the upcoming new year. Despite this being illegal, the punishment isn’t death. Instead of involving the local police, the officer claimed self-defense and claimed Porter fired at him, this is disputed by his family. Currently, there is no justful decision that has been made as there is no video proof of the altercation or the murder. 

Renee Nicole Good

On January 7, 2026, I.C.E. agent Jonathan Ross opened fire and murdered 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good as she was trying to drive away. Originally, Ross claimed self-defense as he described a scene where Good was trying to run him over and was out of control. Good’s last words to Ross were, “It’s okay, I’m not mad at you.” Later revealed footage of the incident led to nationwide outrage. 

Victor Manuel Diaz

Victor Manuel Diaz was arrested on January 6, 2026, on January 14th, he was dead in I.C.E. custody. I.C.E. reported his death as a presumed suicide but the official cause is still under investigation. Diaz’s family does not believe that he took his life as he never had malicious intent and was only trying to support his mother.

Diaz’s family also does not approve of a federal medical examiner, nor the federal government handling the case or the body of Diaz. This opinion is spread wide in the nation as well. This is another “suicide” in I.C.E. custody, which begins to raise heavy suspicions of a cover-up. 

Parady La

Forty-six-year-old Parady La has been on US soil since he was a year old in 1981. Due to criminal convictions, La lost his green card. These criminal convictions included robbery, forgery, drug possession. La experienced difficulties with substance abuse after his brother was murdered in 2005. I.C.E. report his death as severe drug withdrawal and agents administered NARCAN, a drug used for those experiencing drug overdose, and CPR. NARCAN should not have been administered in this situation providing a lack of training or knowledge of NARCAN by the officers. 

La was transferred to the hospital with anoxic brain injury, post-cardiac arrest, shock, and multiple organ failure. The family of La remains skeptical of the events leading to his death.

Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz

For more than twenty years Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz has been building a life in the United States, now a father of three children. Yanez-Cruz had been in I.C.E. custody since November 2025, and died January 6, 2026 due to heart issues. The family of Yanez-Cruz notes that they knew of his discomfort, but the detention center would only give him pain medication. He is remembered as great father and grandfather.

Heber Sanchez Dominguez

Only a week after being in I.C.E. custody was Heber Sanchez Dominguez found dead in his cell at Robert A Deyton Detention Facility at the age of thirty four. Dominguez was arrested originally for driving in Georgia without a license and was then transferred to I.C.E. custody. According to I.C.E. reports, around 2:05a.m. Dominguez was found hanging in his cell. Mexican officials and Dominguez’s family doubt this as a true cause and have called for investigation. 

Nationwide suspicion of deaths in I.C.E. custody, especially suicide related deaths, has increased. The purpose of I.C.E. is being questioned as more people are wrongfully dying.

President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance have played off the recent events with, “brainwashed left-wing ideology.” to the public. The push for accountability being silenced by the President of the United States and a federal government organization is killing people. 

Nobody can revive a head shot or a strangulation. Those people are dead, those people are gone. The smallest justice is accountability. Those are children with no father or mother, no partner with a spouse, parents without children. American citizen or not, you are a target if you are in the path of an I.C.E. agent as evidence has bared witness to the public.