40 civilians dead from Trump’s military and federal deployments targeting immigrants across U.S.

I have been closely tracking all civilian deaths resulting from President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” federal law enforcement and military deployments across the United States—notoriously spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Trump and his administration officials have ascribed this massive nationwide anti-immigrant operation and resulting civil conflict with the label “remigration,” a European neo-Nazi term popularized in Germany which asserts an explicit goal of ethnic cleansing via forced migration. The violent roots of this eliminationist term have clearly began to manifest on the ground, with civilian killings and deaths resulting from these operations, of U.S. citizens and non-citizens alike, spiking dramatically. In addition to the mortalities: several thousand detained immigrants have also gone missing in the ICE detention system.  

With the fatal shooting of Renée Nicole Macklin Good by ICE officer Jonathan E. Ross this week: the Department of Homeland Security and the Executive Branch’s massive campaign against immigrant communities has led to the deaths of at least 40 civilians in just under one year. 31 immigration detention deaths, 1 jail detention death, and 8 federal deployment and/or protest related deaths. Here is the list of the deaths and killings we know of so far since the start of Trump’s second administration:

40: Renée Nicole Macklin Good, fatally shot and killed by ICE in Minneapolis, Minnesota 

39: Keith Porter, fatally shot and killed by ICE in Northridge (Los Angeles), California 

38. (Victim’s Name Unreleased), fatally shot and killed by CBP in Rio Grande City, Texas 

37. Silverio Villegas González, fatally shot and killed by ICE in Franklin Park (Chicago), Illinois

36. Josué Castro Rivera, killed by vehicle due to ICE stop in Virginia

35. Carlos Roberto Montoya, killed by vehicle due to ICE raid in Monrovia (Los Angeles), California

34. Jaime Alanís, killed by being chased off a rooftop by ICE during raid in Oxnard, California

33. Adrienne Villa, arrested for protesting ICE and found hanging to death in police custody in Los Angeles, California

32. Nenko Stanev Gantchev, found dead in ICE custody (official cause of death still under investigation) in Baldwin, Michigan

31. Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, found without a pulse in ICE custody—later dying in a hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana

30. Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, died from “medical distress” in ICE custody after an emergency federal motion for medical relief he filed three days prior went ignored in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania 

29. Jean Wilson Brutus, found dead after only one day of ICE custody in Newark, New Jersey 

28. Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, died at a hospital under ICE custody in Fort Worth, Texas 

27. Pete Sumalo Montejo, died at a hospital under ICE custody in Harlingen, Texas 

26. Francisco Gaspar-Andrés, died at a hospital due to suspected kidney and liver failure under ICE custody in El Paso, Texas

25. Kai Yin Wong, died at a hospital under ICE custody in San Antonio, Texas

24. Gabriel Garcia Aviles, found dead after only one week of ICE custody in Adelanto, California

23. Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh, died at a hospital under ICE custody in Miami-Dade, Florida 

22. Leo Cruz-Silva, found dead in ICE custody in Ste Genevieve, Missouri 

21. Huabing Xie, died at a hospital under ICE custody in Calexico, California 

20. Miguel Ángel García Medina, fatally shot while in ICE custody in Dallas, Texas 

19. Norlan Guzman-Fuente, fatally shot while in ICE custody in Dallas, Texas

18. Ismael Ayala-Uribe, died at a hospital under ICE custody in Adelanto, California 

17. Santos Banegas Reyes, found dead under ICE custody in Nassau, New York 

16. Oscar Rascon Duarte, died at a hospital under ICE custody in Mesa, Arizona 

15. Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, found dead in ICE custody (official cause of death still under investigation) in Florence, Arizona

14. Chaofeng Ge, found dead after only four days of ICE custody in Pennsylvania 

13. Tien Xuan Phan, died at a hospital under ICE custody in Live Oak, Texas 

12. Isidro Pérez, died at a hospital under ICE custody in Miami, Florida 

11. Johnny Noviello, found dead in ICE custody in Miami, Florida 

10. Jesus Molina-Veya, found dead in ICE custody in Lumpkin, Georgia 

9. Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado, died while in transit from a local jail to an ICE detention center in Georgia

8. Marie Ange Blaise, died at the Broward transitional center under ICE custody in Pompano Beach, Florida

7. Nhon Ngoc Nguyen, died at a hospital under ICE custody in El Paso, Texas 

6. Brayan Garzón-Rayo, found dead at the Phelps county jail under ICE custody in Rolla, Missouri 

5. Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, died at a hospital under ICE custody in San Juan, Puerto Rico 

4. Maksym Chernyak, died at a hospital under ICE custody in Miami, Florida 

3. Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, died at a hospital under ICE custody in Phoenix, Arizona 

2. Genry Ruiz Guillén, died at a hospital under ICE custody in Hialeah, Florida 

1. (Victim’s Name Unreleased), found dead at the scene of massive police crackdown against anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, California

These massive increases in civilian deaths linked to immigration enforcement and military deployment operations marks the most lethal year for ICE in over twenty years. In addition to these fatal civilian casualties, NBC Chicago reported that over 3,000 detained immigrants have gone missing following ICE’s so-called “Midway Blitz” anti-immigrant operation in Chicago. And that’s just from one city. In Florida’s notorious so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center, at least 1,250 detained immigrants have gone missing, according to the Miami Herald.   

This is the horrific human cost of Trump’s shocking and violent crackdowns targeting immigrant communities, anti-ICE protests, and non-Republican cities.