How many U.S. citizens were confirmed deported by DHS or ICE in 2025 according to public agency records?

1. What the agencies report about removals — and what those words mean

DHS and ICE public materials and datasets catalogue “removals,” “deportations,” and voluntary departures of noncitizens — the universe of people subject to immigration enforcement — and the statistical tables and dashboards cited by ICE and the Office of Homeland Security Statistics are framed and labeled around citizenship categories that distinguish noncitizens from U.S. citizens ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}. The DHS press releases trumpeting hundreds of thousands of removals clearly describe those figures as actions against “illegal aliens” or “illegal immigrants,” not U.S. citizens, and internal ICE tables used by reporters and researchers likewise index removals by foreign citizenship ^{[5] [6] [7]}.

2. What the independent trackers and FOIA datasets show — and their limits

Independent projects that publish and analyze ICE enforcement data — including the Deportation Data Project, The Guardian’s tracking and academic estimates such as Migration Policy Institute’s — rely on ICE’s operational records and FOIA releases that track arrests, detentions and removals by citizenship, but their publications and data extracts report deportations of noncitizens and do not document U.S. citizens being deported in 2025 in the sources provided ^{[3] [4] [7]}. These secondary analyses also warn of data gaps and coding changes that complicate precise tallies, and they note that DHS has been selectively releasing or halting detailed tables at times, which limits independent verification ^{[7] [3]}.

3. No source in the supplied reporting confirms any U.S. citizen deportations in 2025

A systematic reading of the supplied DHS/ICE pages, press statements, FOIA-derived datasets and media analyses yields high-volume counts of removals — for example, DHS press releases claiming hundreds of thousands of deportations or removals — but none of those items in the provided reporting identify U.S. citizens as the subjects of deportation or give a numeric count of U.S. citizens deported in 2025 ^{[5] [6] [8]}. In short, the records and analyses supplied report removals of noncitizens and do not confirm any deportation-of-citizen cases within those official tallies ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

4. Caveats, alternative explanations and reporting biases

It is possible that isolated administrative errors or misidentified records could lead to an individual U.S. citizen being wrongly processed, but the materials provided do not surface a documented, confirmed case or an agency-level count of citizens removed in 2025, and cannot be used to prove the absence of any such isolated incidents ^{[3] [4]}. Additionally, several of the DHS press releases and politically framed claims analyzed here are overtly promotional and sometimes rely on third‑party estimates for related counts ^{[5] [6] [9]}, so readers should distinguish between politically oriented press tallies and the raw ICE/OHSS datasets that form the statistical record ^{[2] [3]}.

Conclusion: direct answer to the question

According to the public agency records and reporting provided here, there are no documented, publicly released counts confirming that U.S. citizens were deported by DHS or ICE in 2025; the available agency tables and press materials count removals and deportations of noncitizens and do not report a number of U.S. citizens deported in 2025 ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}. The supplied sources do not rule out the theoretical possibility of rare, misidentified cases, but they contain no confirmed count of citizen deportations for 2025 and lack a public agency figure to cite on that point ^[3].