ICE Killings: 44 Dead in One Year. We Know Their Names
ICE Killed 4 in the Street. 38 Died in Detention. Zero Charged.
I’m going to tell you about Silverio Villegas González. He was 38 years old. On the morning of September 12, 2025, he dropped his two sons at school outside Chicago, then headed to work. ICE agents pulled him over in Franklin Park. They said he dragged an officer with his car. They shot him dead.
That’s what this year has been. That’s who we’ve lost.
Forty-four people are dead since Trump expanded immigration enforcement last June. We know their names. Federal agents shot four people dead in street operations, drove two more to flee to their deaths, wounded at least five, and presided over thirty-seven deaths in detention—including one now ruled a homicide by the El Paso County Medical Examiner (Washington Post).
Congress more than doubled ICE’s budget (Reuters). Not one agent has been charged.
I’m writing this for you because you’re not going to look away. You’re going to read these names. And then you’re going to figure out what to do about it.
The Street Killings
Silverio
The bodycam footage told a different story than the one DHS gave us.
The “severely injured” ICE agent? He called his wounds “nothing major” (NBC News). No video shows the shooting. No video shows the alleged dragging. The ICE agents weren’t wearing body cameras.
His attorney said Villegas González had no criminal record (CBS News Chicago). His family called him “a hardworking, respectful man who loved his family.”
Illinois lawmakers demanded an Inspector General investigation (Rep. García Press Release). They’re still waiting. So is his family.
Keith
New Year’s Eve 2025. Keith Porter Jr., 43, was at his apartment complex in Northridge, LA. A Black father of two. A member of Black Lives Matter–LA. He was firing a gun in the air to mark the holiday (LA Times)—common enough in neighborhoods across the city on that night.
An off-duty ICE agent living in the complex shot him dead. DHS said the agent responded to an “active shooter.” Friends say Keith threatened no one (LA Times).
Here’s what we learned later: court filings showed the agent had been accused of child abuse and racist remarks about Black people and immigrants (LA Times). There’s no video of the shooting.
Fifty people came to the vigil (LA Times). His family said this: “The ache will never go away” (The Guardian).
I believe them.
Renee
January 7, 2026. Renee Nicole Good, 37, sat in her maroon Honda Pilot during “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis. 2,000 officers surged into the city (CNN).
Video shows an agent yanking at her door. She tried to drive away. Agent Jonathan Ross fired three times at point-blank range (CNN).
DHS said she “weaponized her vehicle.” Mayor Jacob Frey watched the video and called it false (NBC News). Renee wasn’t a target of anything. She wasn’t suspected of any crime. The attorney general called her “a compassionate neighbor trying to be a legal observer” (NPR).
Her wife said it plainly: “We had whistles. They had guns” (AP News).
That’s the whole thing, isn’t it? Whistles. Guns.
Alex
Two days ago. January 24, 2026. Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, saw a woman pushed by federal officers in Minneapolis. He went to help (NBC News).
He was a nurse. That’s what nurses do.
An altercation followed. A Border Patrol officer shot him dead.
The White House called him a “would-be assassin” (The Independent). Minneapolis Police confirmed he was licensed to carry (ABC7 Chicago). Four eyewitness videos contradicted the official account (NBC News).
Alex was an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA (AP News). He saved lives. The union called his death “devastating” (PBS NewsHour).
The governor activated the National Guard. The city requested a restraining order (CNN).
The killing hasn’t stopped.
The Ones Who Survived
Not everyone shot by immigration agents has died. I want you to know these names too.
Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen, was shot five times by CBP agent Charles Exum in Chicago on October 4, 2025 (CNN). She survived. The government charged her with assaulting federal officers—then a judge dismissed all charges after texts showed Exum bragging, “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes” (NBC News).
Read that again. He bragged.
Carlitos Ricardo Parias, 44, known as “Richard LA” to 130,000+ TikTok followers, was shot in the elbow in Los Angeles on October 21, 2025 (The Independent). He was famous for filming ICE arrests. A city councilman called him “a fearless citizen journalist” (NBC News).
In Portland on January 8, agents shot and wounded Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras and Luis David Nico Moncada in a hospital parking lot (USA Today). In Minneapolis on January 15, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg (NPR).
Federal agents have shot 12 people since September (NBC News). Three of four drivers charged after being shot had their cases thrown out (USA Today).
The official story keeps falling apart. The violence doesn’t.
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Dying Inside
The street killings get the headlines. The custody deaths are quieter, steadier, more relentless.
Thirty-one people died in ICE detention in 2025, the deadliest year in two decades (The Guardian). Six more in the first 25 days of 2026 (Wikipedia). December was the deadliest month on record.
One of those deaths has been ruled a homicide.
Geraldo
January 3, 2026. Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, a Cuban immigrant, was in segregation at Camp East Montana, a tent facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso. ICE said he died of “medical distress” (ICE News Release).
A fellow detainee told The Washington Post he watched guards choke Lunas Campos (Washington Post). The man said, “No puedo respirar”—I can’t breathe—over and over.
On January 21, the medical examiner ruled it a homicide. Asphyxia from neck and chest compression. Petechiae in his eyelids and neck—textbook strangulation (The Guardian; LA Times).
DHS insists he died during a “suicide attempt” while “violently resisting” (The Independent). The medical examiner disagrees.
No one has been charged.
The Tent Camp
Camp East Montana opened in August. Three people have died there since.
Francisco Gaspar-Andres, 48 (Guatemala)—December 3, 2025. ICE said liver and kidney failure. His widow disputes it (USA Today).
Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55 (Cuba)—January 3, 2026. Homicide.
Victor Manuel Diaz, 36 (Nicaragua)—January 14, 2026. ICE said “presumed suicide.” His family disputes it (NBC News; The Guardian). Victor had been arrested in Minneapolis on January 6 (CBS News).
Emergency logs show 90 calls from the facility between August and December: chest pain, seizures, suicide attempts, trouble breathing (El Paso Times). Human rights groups want it shut down (Border Report).
The Count
Let me give you some of the names from 2026:
Parady La, 46, (Cambodia), died from drug withdrawal. His family says he begged for water and didn’t get it (Wikipedia).
Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, 34, (Mexico), was found hanging after six days inside (CBS News).
Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, 42, (Honduras), heart failure (ICE).
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, 68, (Honduras), heart-related (ICE).
And from 2025: Chaofeng Ge, 32 (China), was found hanging after five days in custody. Santos Reyes-Banegas, 42 (Honduras), dead of liver failure after less than 18 hours. Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, 45 (Ethiopia), applying for asylum, possible lymphoma. Norlan Guzman-Fuentes and Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, both shot by a sniper attacking the Dallas ICE facility (NBC News; The Guardian).
By mid-December, ICE held 68,440 people, 75% with no criminal conviction (The Guardian). By mid-January, 73,000, the highest in the agency’s 23-year history (CBS News).
What Congress Did
Here’s the part where I tell you it got worse.
$30 billion for ICE arrests and deportations, more than double last year (Reuters). $45 billion for detention, expanding capacity to 100,000 beds. $46.6 billion for the wall. $4.1 billion to hire more Border Patrol.
Passed 220–207. Seven Democrats said yes (NBC News).
No conditions on detention standards. No body camera rules. No use-of-force limits. No oversight hearings on the deaths.
The administration gutted the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Eliminated the Immigration Detention Ombudsman (NBC News).
They killed the mechanisms meant to stop exactly this.
What’s Still Possible
I could end this piece in despair. The numbers are horrific. The mechanisms of accountability have been dismantled. Congress has funded more of this, not less.
But you’re still reading. And that matters.
Courts have found “a mountain of evidence” of Fourth Amendment violations (Common Dreams). Plaintiffs describe “brazen, midday kidnappings” and “dungeon-like” conditions (CalMatters). Judges have issued restraining orders. None of it has stopped the killing, but it’s created a record, and records matter. Records become indictments. Records become history.
Here’s what to watch:
Charges for the Lunas Campos homicide. The medical examiner ruled it a homicide. Will anyone be prosecuted?
Minneapolis federal court. The city requested a restraining order halting operations. If granted, it sets a precedent.
Democratic oversight hearings. Members have called for them. Whether they happen depends on pressure.
Class actions in LA and DC. These cases are building. A permanent injunction would be historic.
At this pace, 2026 will be deadlier than 2025. But pace isn’t destiny. Pace is a challenge.
Possible is sometimes all you need to stay in the fight.
What You Can Do
You know 44 names now. Silverio Villegas González. Keith Porter Jr. Renee Nicole Good. Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Geraldo Lunas Campos. Parady La. Heber Sanchaz Domínguez. And 36 more.
What do you owe them?
Call your representative. Demand oversight hearings on ICE custody deaths and agent shootings. Demand body cameras. Demand conditions on detention funding. Demand prosecution for Geraldo Lunas Campos’s killing.
Find your rep: house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
If your state has sanctuary policies, defend them. If it doesn’t, fight for them. If ICE operates where you live, document it. If you see an arrest, record it—safely, streaming to the cloud.
They are counting on you to be exhausted. They are counting on you to believe there’s no way out.
My job (our job) is to rip that belief to shreds.
Possible keeps people moving. Possible keeps people dangerous to systems that want them exhausted.
Don’t look away.
Methods & Verification
All claims were cross-checked against primary sources, official ICE disclosures, court records, and independent journalism. The Lunas Campos homicide ruling confirmed by the El Paso County Medical Examiner and independently reported by The Washington Post, The Guardian, and LA Times. Custody death counts are verified against ICE’s Detainee Death Reporting and Wikipedia’s sourced compilation. Every named victim appears in at least two independent sources.
Sources
Primary Sources Cited (Inline)
ABC7 Chicago: “Chicago leaders, protesters react after Illinois-born nurse killed by federal agents in Minneapolis”
AP News: “Wife of Minnesota woman killed in ICE shooting: ‘We had whistles. They had guns’”
AP News: “The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says”
Border Report: “Groups demand immediate closure of Camp East Montana following 3rd in-custody death”
CalMatters: “LA immigration raids lawsuit”
CBS News: “Man arrested by ICE in Minneapolis dies while under federal agency’s custody in Texas”
CBS News: “DHS confirms Mexican citizen’s death in ICE custody in Georgia”
CBS News Chicago: “Undocumented father killed by ICE agent in Franklin Park shooting had no criminal background, lawyer says”
CNN: “What we know about ICE’s fatal shooting of a US citizen in Minneapolis”
CNN: “911 transcripts, incident reports and videos show how an ICE agent shot a mother of 3 at ‘point blank range’”
CNN: “Text messages and a moved SUV: How the government’s case against a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent fell apart”
CNN: “January 24, 2026—Fatal shooting of Minneapolis man”
Common Dreams: “LA Court Finds ‘Mountain of Evidence’ of ICE Profiling”
El Paso Times: “Exclusive: 911 calls from migrant detention center highlight dire conditions”
ICE: “Detainee Death Reporting”
LA Times: “Man killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge identified by community”
LA Times: “‘Active shooter’ or ICE agent’s victim? What happened in L.A. New Year’s Eve killing?”
LA Times: “ICE agent believed responsible for L.A. killing accused of child abuse, racism in court filings”
LA Times: “Emotional vigil held for man killed by off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve”
LA Times: “ICE says a Cuban man died during a suicide attempt. A witness says a guard fatally choked him”
NBC News: “Bodycam videos show ICE agents’ initial reactions to fatal Chicago shooting”
NBC News: “After fatal ICE shooting, DHS and Minnesota officials share contrasting accounts”
NBC News: “Trump’s DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September”
NBC News: “Live Updates: Alex Pretti shot and killed by Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis”
NBC News: “Judge dismisses charges against Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol”
NBC News: “Shooting by federal officer wounds immigrant and U.S. marshal in Los Angeles”
NBC News: “DHS names detainee victims of shooting at Dallas ICE facility”
NBC News: “Third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says”
NBC News: “Demands grow for ICE accountability”
NBC News: “House passes sprawling spending package; Democrats split on ICE funding”
NPR: “Democratic leaders respond to fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis”
NPR: “DHS: ICE officers in Minneapolis shoot Venezuelan man in the leg”
PBS NewsHour: “Man shot and killed by federal officers in Minnesota was an ICU nurse, his parents say”
Rep. Jesús García: “Press Release: Call for DHS IG Investigation”
Reuters: “How Republican spending bill supercharges immigration enforcement”
The Guardian: “2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody”
The Guardian: “Death of man at ICE camp could be investigated as homicide after examiner’s report”
The Guardian: “Second man dies at Texas ICE detention facility in two weeks”
The Guardian: “Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges”
The Independent: “Richard LA: TikTok star hit by bullet during ICE operation in LA”
The Independent: “ICE shooting latest: Victim of Minneapolis shooting named as ICU nurse”
The Independent: “Medical examiner set to rule ICE detention death a homicide”
USA Today: “Feds ID 2 people shot by Border Patrol agents in Portland, Oregon”
USA Today: “Minneapolis, Chicago, LA: How shootings by federal agents fit pattern”
USA Today: “She survived ICE custody; her husband died during detention”
Washington Post: “Medical examiner likely to classify death of ICE detainee as homicide”
Wikipedia: “List of deaths in ICE detention”
Additional Background Sources
Forbes: “Authorities Identify Venezuelan Migrant Shot In Minneapolis By Federal Law Enforcement”
Hindustan Times: “Franklin Park ICE shooting: Who was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez?”
Notus: “2025 Fiscal Year Among the Deadliest in ICE History for Detained Migrants”
The Trace: “How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?”
Wikipedia: “List of shootings by U.S. immigration agents in the second Trump administration”
Updated as deaths are reported.
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I read the LA times article on Keith Porter. It said the officer challenged him and Porter pointed the gun at him. There were no witnesses or camera footage. Complex said they had none and officer was off duty so wasn’t wearing one. Yet if no one else was around before the officer challenged him who did the officer think was threatened by the gun? It did say there were bullet holes behind where the officer said he was standing. Strange how all these incidents turn into fatalities.