Help us report on Texas ICE detention The Texas Tribune is continuing to report on the record deaths in the state’s immigrant detention facilities and the conditions inside. The expansion of ICE detention is “coupled with a dissolution of oversight, a reduction in detention standards, and draconian restrictions on releases,” said Claire Trickler-McNulty, a former senior ICE official during the last three administrations. “Deaths from staff violence are another level,” he said, calling them “preventable, and the result of training and supervision failures.”What about the other ICE detention deaths? Of the nine people who died in Texas ICE facilities since Trump’s second term, many were in their mid-forties. Civil lawsuits have revealed that detention officials at times destroyed relevant video footage that would aid investigations, he said.

Source: Washington Post February 19, 2026 20:05 UTC