How many undocumented Hispanic immigrants have been deported from the US in 2024?
Executive summary
The reporting assembled does not provide a definitive count of how many undocumented Hispanic immigrants were deported from the United States in calendar year 2024; available official tallies report total removals by agency and nationality groupings (for example, Mexicans) but not a clean “Hispanic” ethnicity total for 2024 in the materials provided [1] [2] [3]. The most reliable published figure in the set refers to ICE removals for FY2024 , and some analysts note Mexico alone accounted for about 32% of those deportations, but extrapolating from that to an exact number of “Hispanic” deportees in calendar 2024 would exceed what the sources support [3].
1. What the official data actually report about 2024 removals
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations dashboards and news releases present removals and related enforcement metrics, including quarterly counts such as “nearly 68,000” removals in ICE’s third quarter of FY2024, but those public dashboards aggregate by nationality and legal status categories rather than by the broader ethnic label “Hispanic” for calendar-year 2024 in the excerpts provided [1] [2]. A separate policy brief cites ICE’s FY2024 total of 271,484 deportations — a large year-over-year increase noted by analysts — but that is an agency fiscal-year total and is presented without an explicit Hispanic-ethnicity breakout in the materials at hand [3].
2. Why “Hispanic” is not a clean category in these sources
Federal removal statistics are typically organized by nationality (country of citizenship) and by legal or criminal status, not by U.S. Census-style ethnic categories such as “Hispanic” or “Latino,” so the sources supplied consistently report nation-of-origin shares (for example, Mexico) rather than an all-encompassing Hispanic ethnicity total [1] [2] [3]. Even where Mexico is reported to be the top nationality and to represent about 32% of ICE deportations in FY2024, that single-country figure does not capture deportations of people from other Hispanic-majority countries (e.g., Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador) nor does it separate undocumented status from other removal categories in every dataset [3].
3. Conflicting or broader figures and why they can be misleading
Other documents in the set make broader claims about departures and removals — for instance, a DHS statement later cited a figure of “over 527,000 deportations” as part of a 2025 announcement — but that number is presented in a different context and timeframe and should not be conflated with ICE’s FY2024 totals or with a Hispanic-specific count for calendar 2024 [4]. Academic and think‑tank pieces emphasize that removals can be counted differently (CBP vs. ICE, returns vs. removals, fiscal year vs. calendar year), which complicates any direct attempt to state a single, precise ethnic-total for 2024 without access to disaggregated microdata [5] [6].
4. What can be stated with confidence from the reporting
From the provided materials it is supportable to say that ICE reported 271,484 deportations in FY2024 (as summarized by Baker Institute reporting) and that ICE removed nearly 68,000 noncitizens in its third quarter of FY2024, and that Mexicans comprised a plurality of those removals (about 32% of ICE’s FY2024 deportations); none of those sources, however, reports an explicit total number of “undocumented Hispanic immigrants” removed in calendar year 2024 [2] [3]. The datasets cited also make clear that enforcement tallies are split across agencies and timeframes, and that public dashboards are the best route to get disaggregated counts if and when an ethnicity field is available [1] [5].
5. Bottom line and recommended next steps for a precise answer
A precise, defensible answer to “How many undocumented Hispanic immigrants have been deported from the US in 2024?” cannot be produced from the supplied reporting because the materials do not include a consolidated, ethnicity‑based count for calendar 2024; the closest policy-reported figure is ICE’s FY2024 removal total of 271,484 with Mexico representing roughly 32% of that total [3]. For a rigorous, disaggregated number, consult ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations dashboards and DHS monthly enforcement tables for calendar‑year 2024 and request nationality-to-ethnicity cross-tabulations or microdata [1] [5].