The Trump regime’s deportation monomania has left far more people dead and wounded than it wants you to know. Agents’ public executions of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have rightly drawn widespread fury, heartbreak, and action. And they are just two of the many more agents have murdered or caused to die in the field since January 2025. Even more people have died in immigration prison. And as for the people federal agents have merely injured? An official count doesn’t exist. There is no doubt that the regime is working overtime to hide the full scope of the terror campaign spreading across our country. 

The Prospect launched this tracker to do our part to stop them from getting away with it. We are collecting data to bring the real harm into sharper focus and to counterbalance the mainstream media’s sanitizing of what we would call “pogroms” if they were happening in any other country. Consider, for example, how The New York Times represented the deadly operation in Minnesota, under the title “Minneapolis Tensions.” Now consider if that would accurately reflect your anguish if modern-day slave-catchers used your toddler as bait and then threw him in prison. Or if they marched your grandfather outside in the snow, wearing only his boxers. Or, God forbid, chased your beloved husband or brother or uncle to his death. Would “tensions” be good enough? No. 

None of these deaths had to happen. All are a result of Trump’s racist mass deportation drive. They are a stain on our country and we refuse to forget. 

Some details about how our tracker is organized: Our information comes primarily from news reports, government data, civil/human rights nonprofit organizations, and other sources such as immigration legal advocates.

We have listed the agency involved when available; Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol are both active, though most people call all agents “ICE.” Border Patrol is an agency housed under Customs and Border Protection (CBP); all these agencies are within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We are including deaths reported by CBP because interactions with immigration agents necessarily increase distress and because DHS has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for immigrants. Fields are left blank when details are absent from reports or unavailable.

Our datasets are incomplete and do not show the comprehensive number of people federal agents have killed and injured. News outlets and advocacy groups do not capture every death; governmental data hides certain information and is inconsistent across reporting channels. The Southwest Border Deaths Subject Data for fiscal year 2025, for example, recorded nearly 200 deaths for the period but lacks details about how each person died. We have only listed people when we could verify that an agent was involved in their death. The dataset for injuries shows only a fraction of the people agents have hurt and typically only includes injuries that were reported and required medical aid.

In early June 2026, the Trump administration changed how it reports deaths in custody to make the number look smaller than it really is. Officials said they would only report the deaths of individuals in custody, then began transferring custody of individuals in medical distress shortly before they died. The Prospect counts these individuals as victims of the Trump administration and is including them in this database; those in this group are marked with an * after their name. If you know of someone who died in custody but is not counted under Trump’s new policy, please get in touch via signal at wwimbish.07.

The American Prospect staff contributed reporting.

Update, August 14, 2026: This story was originally published on January 29, 2026 and has been updated several times, most recently on August 14, 2026, to reflect an updated tally of deaths in custody and to note the Trump administration’s new policy to transfer people in medical distress.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish is a staff writer at The American Prospect. She previously worked in the Financial Times newsletters division, The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh, and the Herald News in New Jersey. Her work has been published in multiple outlets, including The New York Times, The Baffler, Los Angeles Review of Books, Music & Literature, North American Review, Sentient, Semafor, and elsewhere. She is a coauthor of The Majority Report’s daily newsletter and publishes short fiction in a range of literary magazines. She can be reached on Signal at wwimbish.07.