170 Citizens illegally detained by Ice
As of October, 2025
Ryan Schwank, Ice Whistleblower
"I am duty-bound to report the legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective and broken.”
~ Ryan Schwank
"On my first day, I received secretive orders to teach cadets to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant,”
America Under Ice
In December, an ICE contractor pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a detainee at a detention facility in Louisiana. Prosecutors said the man had sexual encounters with a Nicaraguan national over a five-month period in 2025 as he instructed other detainees to act as lookouts.
“I’m ICE, boys,” an ICE employment eligibility auditor told police in Minnesota in November when he was arrested in a sting as he went to meet a person he thought was a 17-year-old prostitute. Alexander Back, 41, has pleaded not guilty to attempted enticement of a minor. ICE said Back is on administrative leave while the agency investigates
300 of the children sent to Dilley have been there for more than a month, Including 9-year-old Susej Fernández, who has been there for 50 days, and 14-year-old Ariana Velasquez, who has been there for 45 days, and 7-year-old Mia Valentina Paz Faria has been detained for 70 days. The Dilley Immigration Processing Center is run by private prison firm CoreCivic, one of several private prison companies that have made more than $1 billion in revenue in under a year.
U.S. Citizen and Army Veteran, George Retes, sues the federal government after ICE detained him for 3 days, without access to an attorney or contact with any family. He was released without any charges, explanation, or apology.
How Many Current Detainees Have ZERO Criminal Convictions
Total Number of immigrants being held in privately-run, for-profit prisons and detainment facilities
90%
How Many People Dead at the hands of ICE (since 2025), as of February 25, 2026.
68,289
Number of Immigrants Currently Detained by ICE, as of February 7th, 2026
Citizens Detained and Assaulted by ICE
41
Marimar Martizin, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen and school teacher, was shot 5 times in Chicago by US border Patrol. DHS incorrectly claimed that she attempted to ram agents with her vehicle before border patrol agent Charles Exum shot her 5 times, however video evidence showed otherwise. While Martinez was initially charged with assaulting federal officers, the government dropped all charges against her, admitting that she had not attempted to ram a DHS vehicle. She is miraculously still alive. Agent Charles Exum later texted other agents, "I fired 5 shots and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys."
AT A RAID IN IDAHO, a 14-year-old U.S. citizen was zip-tied while she was watching her 6 and 8-year-old siblings. After a 16-year-old complained his zip-ties were too tight, an officer laughed and tightened them, ACLU lawsuit claims. He still has scars, months later. At least 70% of people detained were lawfully present in the U.S. or citizens, the lawsuit says.
A family with 6 children were tear-gassed by ICE while returning home from basketball practice. Their vehicle became trapped between protesters and ICE agents, when an agent released a canister of tear gas beneath their vehicle. "Within seconds, there was a big boom and our car was up in the air and we slammed down and all of our airbags deployed and all of our doors locked. And tear gas just started forming, a ball of gas just started forming around the car," Destiny Jackson said.
US Citizens killed by ICE, since 2025: Ruben Ray Martinez, Keith Porter Jr., Renee Nicole Good, Alex Pretti
"Aliya Rahman was driving to see her doctor — the 39th such appointment since she’d suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2024— when she was dragged from her car by ICE, carried off to a detention center, where she suffered a medical emergency and was denied care before she blacked out and landed in a hospital.”
Video: 80-year-old man pepper sprayed and slammed to ground by ICE agents.
$70,000
73.6%
Two ICE agents are on leave after shooting a man and then lying under oath, stating that they shot Sosa-Celis in self defense. Video evidence showed otherwise, and all charges against Sosa-Celis have since been dropped. As of February 26th, 2026, the DHS website still posts the defamatory, fabricated lies of the two ICE agents.
Irishman, married to a US Citizen, and with a valid work visa, has been held in a private prison in El Paso, TX, for over 5 months. Culleton has reached out to Irish authorities for help, and stated, “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything... It’s an absolute torture, psychological and physical torture,” Culleton said, adding he did not know how much more he could take. “It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place.”
Randall Gamboa Esquivel, a 52-year-old from Costa Rica, was held in an ICE prison for over 10 months, despite having no criminal background. He was returned to Costa Rica in a vegetative state, by air ambulance, where he died.
Shah Alam, a 56-year-old nearly-blind father and refugee, was found dead, in Buffalo, NY, after being dropped off in the cold by border patrol. He didn’t speak English, didn't have a phone, and no one notified his lawyer or family.
The Money Behind The Inhumanity
The total combined revenue for GEO Group and CoreCivic in 2025, two operators of at least 29 private ICE prisons and facilities.
$4.8 Billion
$6.49 Million
Judge orders release of 32 immigrants detained illegally by ICE in Chicago.
How Much Ice Plans to Spend Turning Warehouses into Detention Centers.
$38 Billion
65-year-old British tourist and grandmother, Karen Newton, was traveling on holiday with her husband, and had a valid visa. She was still shackled, handcuffed, and incarcerated for 6- weeks. She has no criminal record.
Acquisition Logistics LLC secured a $1.2 billion contract to run Camp East Montana, an ICE facility in Texas, where 2 detainees had their testicles crushed as forms of punishment, and one detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, a father of 4, was choked to death by a guard, after being held for 5 months. DHS later claimed Campos died by suicde. Acquisition Logisitcs LLC has no previous experience
How much Acquisition Logistics LLC was awarded from the federal government to build and operate the nation’s “largest immigration detention complex.” Acquisition Logistics has no known previous experience running a correction facility, does not have a functioning website and lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer.
$1.2 Billion
Lacking Any Decency or Morality,
The American Government Keeps Going
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