Have any US citizens over the age of 18 been deported in the ice raids of 2025

1. What the evidence clearly documents: widespread detention of citizens, not deportation

Investigations and datasets compiled by news organizations and watchdogs show many U.S. citizens were swept up, held or otherwise subjected to force during 2025 enforcement actions—ProPublica’s compilation and reporting referenced by OPB found more than 170 cases of citizens held by immigration agents, and multiple local reports detail handcuffing and temporary detention of municipal employees and civilians during raids ^{[1] [2]}; The Guardian likewise notes that ICE’s surge arrested people with legal status, “including citizens,” during the government shutdown and expanded operations ^[3]. Those items together establish that citizens were frequently detained, sometimes abusively, but do not, in the cited reporting, show those detentions culminating in deportation for adults.

2. Where the reporting hints at errors and wrongful removals, but does not prove citizen deportations

Several sources document administrative errors and mistaken removals of non‑citizens and stateless individuals—Wikipedia’s summary cites cases like Kilmar Armando Abrego García, who the government admitted was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and later ordered returned—but that case involved a Salvadoran national, not a U.S. citizen ^[4]. Human Rights First and ICE Flight Monitor document surging deportation flights and transfers in 2025, raising due‑process concerns, but their flight tracking reports capture nationality categories that do not identify any verified adult U.S. citizen removals in the materials provided ^[5].

3. Data gaps and caveats that leave the question partially open

Researchers and advocacy groups caution that ICE data are messy: dataset corrections, missing identifiers and shifting coding practices make it difficult to trace individual cases across arrest, processing, detention and removal records ^{[6] [7]}. Prison Policy Initiative specifically notes limitations in ICE datasets that can obscure who exactly was on particular flights or transferred between field offices ^[6]. Those acknowledged data gaps mean that absence of a named, corroborated example in these sources is strong but not definitive proof that no adult U.S. citizen was ever mistakenly removed in 2025; it means reporters and monitors have not yet documented such a deportation in the material at hand.

4. Legal and advocacy response: lawsuits, monitoring, and the political stakes

Because many detained citizens and civil‑rights groups have filed complaints and litigation—examples in local reporting and legal filings involving city officials, staffers and community members—there is active scrutiny and a court record to follow; Wikipedia and news outlets document lawsuits and civil‑rights actions tied to raids where citizens were detained and injured ^[2]. Advocacy groups and watchdogs are also monitoring deportation flights and detention outcomes closely, which increases the likelihood that a citizen removal would be exposed and litigated publicly if it occurred and was traceable ^{[5] [6]}.

5. Bottom line: based on the reporting provided, no verified case of deportation of a U.S. citizen over 18 in 2025

Synthesis of the reviewed sources finds many documented instances of U.S. citizens being detained, mistreated and in some cases held for extended periods during ICE operations in 2025, but none of the cited reporting presents a verified, documented example of an adult U.S. citizen being deported from the United States as part of those raids; the reporting does, however, show mistaken removals of non‑citizens, dataset opacity that could hide individual cases, and active litigation that would likely surface any proven citizen deportation ^{[1] [2] [4] [6] [5] [3]}.