How many immigrants of European origin were deported from the US in 2024 by country of nationality?
Executive summary
The available reporting does not supply a ready-made table of 2024 removals from the United States broken down specifically into “immigrants of European origin by country of nationality,” and therefore a precise per‑country count for Europe in 2024 cannot be produced from the sources provided; ICE and DHS publish country-level removals dashboards and yearbook tables that cover 2024 but the excerpts here do not include the European-country totals required [1] [2] [3]. What the record does show is that federal agencies publish granular country-of-citizenship removals data (which must be queried directly) and that deportation flows in recent years have been dominated numerically by migrants from nearby countries in Mexico, Central America, and parts of South America rather than by Europeans [1] [4] [5].
1. What the official sources actually publish about removals and country breakdowns
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) maintains dashboards and quarterly updates that include removals, arrests and detentions disaggregated by country of citizenship and criminal history; ICE updated those dashboards to include data through December 31, 2024 and indicates the dashboards will be refreshed quarterly [1] [2]. The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) also compiles monthly enforcement tables and an annual Yearbook with “Aliens Returned by Region and Country of Nationality” tables — those DHS products are the official places to get country-level counts, although the snippets provided here do not include a Europe-by-country list for 2024 [3] [6] [7].
2. Why the supplied reporting cannot answer the question with exact per-country figures
None of the supplied snippets reproduces the numeric country-by-country removals for European nationalities in 2024; the ICE press release and dashboard descriptions confirm the existence of country breakdowns but do not print the European totals in these excerpts, and the OHSS Yearbook link in the snippets points to older tables (2017–2019) without giving 2024 country rows here [2] [1] [6]. Secondary summaries (USAFacts, Migration Policy, Econofact) report aggregate removal or repatriation totals and policy context for 2023–2024 but do not list a per‑European‑country deportation table in the provided excerpts [5] [4] [8].
3. Patterns and context relevant to European nationalities
Analysts note it is typically harder logistically and diplomatically to remove nationals of distant or noncooperative countries, a factor that tends to concentrate removals on Mexico, northern Central America and other nearby countries — a pattern described by Migration Policy and reflected in aggregate removal totals for 2023–2024 [4]. ICE’s public messaging stresses priorities tied to national security, public safety, and recent border arrivals, which also shapes which nationalities are prioritized for enforcement and removal [2] [1]. Eurostat and EU reporting show that returns within Europe and repatriations to non‑EU countries are tracked separately in European statistics, underscoring that transatlantic comparisons require consulting both U.S. and European data sources [9] [10].
4. Best next steps to obtain authoritative per‑country European removal counts for 2024
To produce the exact table requested, consult (a) the ICE ERO removals dashboard and country-of-citizenship exports (ICE’s statistics page and dashboards covering removals through Dec. 31, 2024) and (b) DHS OHSS monthly tables and the Yearbook “Aliens Returned by Region and Country of Nationality” for FY2024 — these are the primary official sources that publish removals by country of nationality [1] [2] [3] [6]. Be aware that different publications use different labels (removals, returns, repatriations, expedited removals) and that some aggregate totals (e.g., “repatriations”) include CBP actions or Title 42 expulsions in other datasets, which can change comparability [5] [2].
5. Alternative interpretations and reporting biases to watch for
Public statements and press releases from enforcement agencies naturally foreground operational success and public-safety rationales, which can emphasize certain removal categories and understate logistical or diplomatic constraints; advocates and researchers highlight that large aggregate removal counts do not automatically translate into large removal flows to distant European states because bilateral acceptance and travel‑document logistics matter [2] [4]. Media or third‑party compilations that claim specific per‑European‑country deportation tallies for 2024 should be checked against the ICE ERO dashboard and DHS OHSS yearbook tables before accepting the figures as authoritative [1] [3].