40 Stories of ICE: Detained, Deported, Disappeared... Real-Life American Horror

A non-exhaustive list of lives uprooted by a system with no guardrails—where innocence, legality, and even citizenship offer no protection.

Heinous, haunting, heartbreaking; these were some of the feelings that bubbled up as I gathered their stories.

This list was collected by searching months of news articles and will be updated as cases progress and more people are swept up in this system. Each name is linked to a news article with more information. If you know of a name that’s not on thi…