How many American citizens has I’ve deported in 2025

1. What the headline deportation totals actually measure

Multiple government and research sources present large overall removal figures for 2025—DHS public statements claim hundreds of thousands of deportations and millions of departures when voluntary self‑deportation is included (for example, DHS reported “more than 605,000” and earlier press releases of “more than 527,000” and 2 million removed or self‑deported) but these releases are framed as removals of “illegal aliens” or similar categories and do not set out a count of U.S. citizens removed ^{[4] [5] [6]}.

2. Independent estimates of total removals, not citizen removals

Analysts and think tanks compiled different estimates of total removals in 2025: Brookings used ICE and Deportation Data Project signals to estimate roughly 310,000–315,000 removals for the year (and modeled voluntary exits of 210,000–405,000), while Migration Policy Institute estimated about 340,000 deportations in FY2025; journalists tracking ICE data reported totals near the low‑to mid‑300,000s as well—these are totals of removals of noncitizens as recorded or inferred from agency data, not counts of U.S. citizens deported ^{[2] [3] [7]}.

3. Documented cases of U.S. citizens caught up in enforcement—and the limits of that evidence

There are documented, high‑profile instances and legal cases in which U.S. citizens were arrested, detained, or in at least a few accounts alleged to have been removed, and reporting and court filings raised alarms about American citizens being “entangled” in enforcement in 2025 (including litigation and a Wikipedia summary noting such incidents); however, those sources also make clear that the government was not routinely tracking the number of detained or missing citizens, meaning case reports are anecdotal and do not add up to a systematic tally ^{[1] [8]}.

4. Why an aggregate citizen‑deportation number is unavailable

The absence of an official tracking mechanism is the key barrier: multiple summaries of 2025 enforcement note that the government did not disaggregate or flag U.S. citizens as a tracked outcome in enforcement datasets, and independent researchers therefore rely on piecing together ICE detention reports, court records and media accounts to estimate removals of noncitizens—not to enumerate erroneously removed citizens ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Where courts or NGOs identified individual citizen removals or wrongful deportation claims, they were treated as discrete legal matters rather than part of a published aggregate statistic ^[1].

5. Competing narratives and what they leave out

DHS messaging emphasizes large removal totals and voluntary departures to signal enforcement success, framing removals as appropriately targeted at noncitizens and criminals ^{[4] [5] [6]}, while civil‑liberties groups, journalists, and legal advocates emphasize detainee increases, legal errors, and documented cases where citizens became caught up in operations—each side relies on different slices of the data and neither produces a validated count of American citizens deported in 2025 ^{[9] [1] [7]}. Given these divergent emphases and the admitted lack of government tracking on citizens, claims about how many U.S. citizens were deported in 2025 cannot be substantiated from the available reporting.

Conclusion: an exact numeric answer is not possible from the public record assembled here—there is clear evidence of many hundreds of thousands of removals of noncitizens in 2025 and documented instances of U.S. citizens getting caught in enforcement, but no authoritative count of American citizens deported exists in the cited sources ^{[4] [5] [7] [2] [3] [1]}.