In ICE Detention, Rising Deaths and Neglect: ‘They Wouldn’t Really Do Anything’
The deadliest six-month period for immigration detention since 2018 has occurred this year, according to a letter Georgia Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock sent to the Department of Homeland Security this week.
Less than 24 hours after that letter was published, the year became deadlier still. A detainee was killed, and two others were seriously injured by a sniper who fired rounds at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Dallas.
The days since the attack have seen political jousting at the highest levels of power, as possible motives for the shooter — who also died in the incident — slowly emerge. Authorities have said the gunman was motivated by anti-ICE sentiment, a reading some family members have dismissed. But whatever his intentions, other deaths in immigration detention this year — from untreated illness, suicide and neglect — have been far more common and far less publicized.
