A staggering variety of folks have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention throughout President Donald Trump’s second time period, deepening considerations about poor situations and medical care at federal amenities throughout the nation.
In response to an evaluation by ABC Information, the primary 14 months of Trump’s second time period have been among the many deadliest for the federal detention system in recent times. As of this week, there’s been a complete of 47 deaths in federal custody, together with 33 in 2025 and 14 within the first three months of 2026, per The New York Instances. (The 2025 determine consists of two individuals who have been killed when a gunman opened fireplace on a Dallas ICE detention facility final September.)
That’s in comparison with 11 deaths in ICE custody in 2024, seven deaths in 2023, and three deaths in 2022, in line with NPR. Beforehand, deaths additionally surged in 2020, when the pandemic contributed to a spike in fatalities.
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On Monday, DHS introduced that Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano had died on March 25, although the company didn’t specify the trigger. Ramos-Solano was discovered unconscious and unresponsive in his bunk on the Adelanto ICE Processing Heart in Southern California and was pronounced lifeless at a neighborhood hospital. He had a number of medical situations, together with diabetes and hypertension, in line with DHS, which claimed that he obtained constant take care of them.
Ramos-Solano’s household has demanded solutions concerning the circumstances of his dying. As L.A. TACO, a neighborhood outlet, reported, detainees at Adelanto alleged to the Immigrant Defenders Legislation Heart that Ramos-Solano had described having bother respiration and feeling overheated. The detainees additionally alleged “that medical employees didn’t reply to their calls till Ramos-Solano was already unresponsive,” L.A. TACO reported. DHS has mentioned that safety alerted medical employees instantly when Ramos-Solano was found to be unconscious.
“What occurred to my dad was very inhumane,” his daughter Gloria Ramos instructed reporters on Monday. “I feel my household and I need to know the reality of what occurred to my dad.”
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Ramos-Solano’s dying, and people of different Mexican nationals, have prompted Mexican officers to ramp up their protests of how the nation’s residents have been handled in immigration detention.
On the Adelanto facility, the place Ramos-Solano died, employees, attorneys and lawmakers beforehand instructed The Los Angeles Instances that detainees slept on the ground with out blankets or pillows, and went days with out clear clothes and underwear. Moreover, attorneys mentioned that detainees additionally skilled medical neglect, citing one one that wasn’t given hypertension drugs his household tried to deliver for him.
Comparable points have been raised at different detention websites, together with Krome North Service Processing Heart in Miami, the place detainees reported an absence of water and medical consideration, and the South Texas Household Residential Heart in Dilley, the place detainees have reported issues with moldy meals and packed dwelling areas.
Moreover, the variety of folks in detention has elevated considerably underneath the Trump administration, resulting in overcrowding that’s reportedly added to present issues. In mid-January, there have been greater than 70,000 folks in federal detention, marking an 84% enhance from the identical time the prior yr.
ABC Information’s evaluation particularly calculated mortality charges to look at whether or not the spikes in deaths surpassed anticipated upticks tied to the rise in detention admissions. These analyses discovered that 3.76 folks died per 100,000 admissions in 2024 in comparison with 7.16 folks per 100,000 admissions in 2025.
“ICE is dedicated to making sure that each one these in custody reside in protected, safe, and humane environments,” DHS claimed in its Monday launch. “Complete medical care is supplied from the second people arrive and all through their keep.”
A DHS spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to a JHB request for remark.