AP: ICE detainees dying by suicide at 'alarming' rate

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An Associated Press investigation found that at least 10 detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody died by suicide since January 2025, including seven this fiscal year, the agency's highest annual total. Those suicides account for nearly a fifth of the 51 deaths ICE documented in custody since January 2025, and multiple cases involved detainees held in isolation or under restrictive conditions. The AP report links the pattern to staffing shortfalls, gaps in mental health care, and detention practices, a finding that could prompt congressional oversight, litigation, or policy changes.

Let’s Be Frank

@frankedson24.bsky.social

An AP investigation today details that ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an 'alarming' rate. When does this antihumanitarian nightmare end? This is utterly unacceptable in a sane & civil democracy. When are the courts going to end this madness. At least pause it and investigate this horror show.

60652d ago

pinkducky710.bsky.social16

We REALLY aren’t mad enough! ANYONE who hasn’t ALREADY changed your federal W4 to EXEMPT is currently, actively and KNOWINGLY funding criminals and terrorists! Trump has TOLD YOU directly that he DOES NOT represent you! NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!

Doctor Synth10

Likely victims are being murdered by the ICE domestic terrorists, who are covering up the murders by calling them suicides.

elizmadsen.bsky.social9

For-profit prisons should not exist. Their owners are getting rich off of the misery of people who should not be imprisoned.

Andy Gold8

The only thing missing from trump's concentration camps are the ovens. (Right??)

Ann T. Social7

No one thinks it’s their responsibility to solve it. Always someone else’s job.

The Shadow Knows5

But are they really dying of suicide, or is that just the cause of death listed in the reports? Sorry, I just don't trust anything that comes from this administration.

Buddy Beaver4

America’s concentration camps are becoming death camps quicker than they did in Germany.

boring-person.bsky.social3

The U.S. hasn’t been a sane and civil democracy in decades. Wake up.

truetanker.bsky.social3

I just have to wonder, though. Suicide? Or "suicide"?

Nofriendo Entertainment System3

If history serves, it'll end with foreign intervention...

un poco loco2

Not saying that conditions are not appalling in ICE detention (they clearly are) but I'd bet more than a few of those "suicides" are "assisted"...

YICYAC2

lol… the courts are the enablers. This is why they were put there…

nan-sees2

We need to end it Or we will be ended Let’s appointment a Secretary of Offense It’s way beyond time Not the game, rules or opponent, we chose but the one we must win We are not spectators We are on the field losing to evil

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley

@pressley.house.gov

Detainees are facing a public health crisis behind detention walls and this surge of suicides should alarm everybody. There is no reforming this. We must abolish ICE.

12352d ago

reneedodson.bsky.social2

Real suicide or Epstein suicide?

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz

@igallupd.bsky.social

"ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation finds"

6852d ago

CRobertBuchanan5

The GOP is running death-camps and the sooner the press starts reporting that reality the better. They have a taste for mass-killing now, and they believe they have immunity from accountability. They will keep escalating until they are stopped.

Kim3

I'll bet big $ the Republicans in charge do not care. They want to get millions of immigrants out of the USA, how that happens is of no concern to these racists.

geraldmcgrew

@geraldmcgrew.bsky.social

*ICE detainees dying by suicide at an unprecedented rate* apnews.com/article/ice-...

1652d ago

Nonilex

@nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy

An AP investigation found that at least 10 detainees, all men, have died by #suicide since #Trump took office in Jan 2025, a pace that FAR EXCEEDS the growth in the detainee population, acc/to a review of #ICE data, autopsy reports, coroners’ rulings & police records. Since October, 7 deaths […]

2052d ago

R. Souissi

@rsouissivibes.bsky.social

ICE detainees are dying by "Suicide" at an alarming rate. And I put "Suicide" in quotes for a reason, because you can call anything something else when outside folks can't see the truth.

1652d ago

Gracie12 📎

@gracienlucy.bsky.social

"The unprecedented number of suicide deaths is an indication that authorities are failing to properly oversee the detention of tens of thousands of immigrants swept up in the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation strategy." ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate .

552d ago

Mynameis...Miro

@zg4ever.bsky.social

apnews.com/article/ice-... Takeaways from AP investigation that found 'alarming' spike in suicide deaths of ICE detainees

752d ago

xyzmaybe

@xyzmayb.bsky.social

At least 10 ICE detainees have died by suicide since Trump's January 2025 inauguration... 7 deaths have been classified as suicides since October... ICE usually records 1 or zero such deaths annually. apnews.com/article/ice-...

152d ago

ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊

@stevefm20.bsky.social

Trump caused this An Associated Press investigation found that at least 10 detainees, all men, have died by suicide since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, a pace that far exceeds the growth in the detainee population apnews.com/article/ice-...

452d ago

Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🐸☮️

@austinmermaid.bsky.social

🚨 “Something is going profoundly wrong from any kind of public health or mental health perspective," Dr. Sanjay Basu, a University of California epidemiologist who cowrote a study documenting the increase in mortality & SUICIDE rates among ICE detainees. www.minnpost.com/national/202...

352d ago

my 2¢

@my-canadian-2cents.bsky.social

- ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate. In this image, detainee Brayan Rayo Garzon looks towards a surveillance camera in the Phelps County jail in Rolla, Mo., on April 7, 2025, shortly before he died by suicide. 🤬

251d ago

THE GOOSE GIRL

@sylviasmothersaid.bsky.social

Ice detainees are dying by suicide at an alarming rate! So our government says! do we know if they’re dying by suicide or murder? Will we claim we didn’t know,like the Germans? THERE IS NO GENEVA CONVENTION 4 THEM & NO ONE 2 SAVE THEM.THE U.S.GOVERNMENT USED 2 SAVE COUNTRIES FROM PEOPLE LIKE US!

252d ago

Chattanooga Times Free Press

@timesfreepress.bsky.social

Brayan Rayo Garzon was distraught. Detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he was on his fourth day of isolation in a Missouri jail as he battled the fevers and chills of COVID-19.

152d ago

Brian W. Kelly

@bwpkelly.bsky.social

I think this should probably read: ICE detainees are dying by "suicide" at an alarming rate, an AP investigation finds. #FuckIce

352d ago

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