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Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it will stop reporting the deaths of people it recently released from custody, citing scrutiny over detention practices. The move comes as anti-ICE protests continue outside detention facilities.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it will no longer report deaths of people it recently released from custody. The move comes as anti-ICE protests continue outside detention facilities and scrutiny over detention practices intensifies. ICE cited the reporting requirement itself as the reason—essentially saying the criticism over these deaths is why they're stopping the count.
Stopping death reporting doesn't stop the deaths. It just removes the public record. ICE is claiming transparency creates burden, when what it's actually doing is eliminating a metric that made the agency's practices visible. Deaths in or shortly after detention are a direct measure of whether the system is working. Removing that data point doesn't improve safety—it just makes failure harder to measure. This is opacity dressed up as burden reduction.
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