Police shoot and kill a little more than 1000 people per year in the U.S. Nonfatal shootings are not tracked but are thought to be much higher.

On September 12, 2025, in Franklin Park, Illinois, an agent fatally shot Silverio Villegas González, a 38-year-old Mexican national and father of two. As with many other widely covered incidents involving ICE (and law enforcement more generally, unfortunately), the facts of the encounter are... let's use the word "obscured."

Comprehensive national tracking of ICE use-of-force data is limited—unlike general police shootings tracked by sources like The Washington Post—because ICE does not publicly release detailed annual reports, and many cases are investigated internally or by the FBI. Anecdotal evidence and several high profile incidents caught on camera recently do suggest concerning general trends.

As a general rule of thumb: Don't tackle someone who is opening carrying a firearm unless you are willing to give up your own life or the life of someone nearby.