EXCLUSIVE: ICE defies Congress, fails to report on immigrant deaths
Exclusive reporting on immigrant deaths in ICE custody. Plus, the nexus between immigration enforcement and threats to elections.
I’m out with a big exclusive today at Zeteo that’s the result of a week of digging into immigrant deaths at ICE facilities across the country. Your paid support funds my journalism, and keeps American Doom free for everyone else. To support my work, please choose a paid subscription or drop a few dollars in the Doom Coffee Fund. Also, pre-order my book so I can hopefully write another one some day. Now, on to the news… - jg
The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis is just the latest development in a year’s worth of outrage over the Trump administration’s aggressive push on immigration enforcement. The apparently unjustified killing of Pretti — and before him, Renee Nicole Good — might push Senate Democrats to refuse to pass a funding bill that would give ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, the money they need to continue their operations across the country.
A vote on that bill is expected Tuesday. Pretti’s killing also comes as there are growing questions about deaths inside immigration facilities. Today at Zeteo, I have some troubling news on that front.
Since October, ICE has not released a single detainee death report for any of the dozen-plus immigrants who have died in immigration custody since that time. ICE is required by federal law to release this information — in the form of what are called “detainee death reports” — within 90 days of an immigrant’s death. But the most recent detainee death report listed on ICE’s website is from Sept. 22.
