Where can the ICE removals by country tables for calendar year 2025 be downloaded and how are they structured?
Executive summary
The ICE "removals by country" data for calendar year 2025 is published in DHS/OHSS monthly tables and in ICE’s statistics pages as downloadable CSV/CSV-like tables (OHSS monthly tables page and DHS Repatriations KHSM) and is also redistributed and parsed by independent projects such as the Deportation Data Project; users should prefer the OHSS/OICE authoritative files while being aware that some ICE releases of the removals table have had errors and recommended replacements [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. Where to download the 2025 removals-by-country tables: authoritative DHS/OHSS and ICE pages
The primary official landing pages are the DHS Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) “Immigration Enforcement and Legal Processes Monthly Tables” (which hosts ICE ERO removals and returns by citizenship and other breakdowns) and the ICE statistics pages where ICE posts enforcement and removals tables; both pages provide the agency-produced tables as machine-readable files (OHSS monthly tables and ICE statistics) [1] [5].
2. How OHSS and DHS present the files and the common formats offered
OHSS and related DHS KHSM products extract ICE removals data from ICE operational systems and publish tables constructed from CSV inputs; the Repatriations KHSM explicitly states that agencies provide comma-separated values (CSV) files drawn from the ICE Integrated Decision Support (IIDS) / DSSDM system, and OHSS updates its monthly tables on a regular schedule (as of January 2025, the third Thursday of each month) [2] [1].
3. Structure of the “removals by country” tables: fields, granularity and counts
The removals tables are organized to show individual removal events aggregated by country of citizenship (often labeled “Citizenship Country” or “Departed Country”) and include administrative metadata such as action/departure date, categories of removal vs. return vs. expulsion, and sometimes criminality or arresting agency fields; DHS notes that Action Date is derived from case closure and departure date and that repatriation tables count repeat repatriations multiple times when people are removed more than once [2] [1].
4. Practical caveats: completeness, known errors and independent project guidance
Multiple independent data projects and watchdogs that redistribut e ICE releases have documented problems with some ICE removals files in 2025—most notably incomplete or inconsistent early releases for 2025—and have recommended using corrected or later files (for example, the Deportation Data Project urged relying on the late July 2025 removals file rather than earlier June files) and warned users to exercise caution when using the removals table [3] [4] [6].
5. How advocacy and third‑party datasets differ from the official tables
Non-government projects like the Deportation Data Project and academic/TRAC aggregations provide processed versions, documentation, and tools for exploration and sometimes flag or exclude problematic ICE tables (the Deportation Data Project has withheld or recommended different files when ICE’s removals table appeared flawed and provides field-level documentation and processed datasets) — these resources are valuable for researchers but reflect curation choices and should be used in concert with the official OHSS/ICE source files [7] [6] [4] [3].
6. Quick user checklist for downloading and using 2025 removals-by-country tables
Download the monthly OHSS/IPSS or ICE CSV/CSV-like files from the OHSS monthly tables or ICE statistics pages (both host the removals-by-country breakdowns), check the table’s sourcing notes and Action Date definition to confirm calendar-year filtering, prefer the corrected late-July/updated ICE removals file when working with 2025 data per independent project advisories, and cross-check with the Deportation Data Project documentation if anomalies are suspected; note that some third-party summaries (e.g., flight monitors or advocacy reports) use different inclusion rules and may show higher or lower totals because of methodological differences [1] [2] [3] [4] [8].