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There is no authoritative, publicly published tally in the supplied records that enumerates how many U.S. citizens have been detained or deported by ICE since 2020; the federal datasets that do exist ...
Publicly available DHS and ICE statistical products and the reporting provided do not identify any confirmed cases of U.S. citizens being deported in 2025; the removals and “deportation” totals cited ...
The available analyses present conflicting tallies for , with figures ranging from roughly to , and repeated agency claims of alongside larger counts that combine removals and “self-deportations” into...
The most defensible, reported totals vary by source but converge around a figure in the low six‑hundreds of thousands for formal deportations since the start of Donald Trump’s second term: DHS and mul...
Current expert estimates for the number of unauthorized (commonly labeled “illegal”) immigrants living in the cluster between about 11 million and 14 million, with alternative methods producing higher...
Available public analyses show the Biden administration’s enforcement produced roughly 4.4 million “repatriations” when deportations are combined with expulsions and other border removals, and the adm...
documented 698 cases it characterizes as "" from U.S. immigration detention between 2017 and 2021, but there is no single, authoritative public tally of "missing" detainees maintained by or that recon...
There is no authoritative count of “ICE detainees who have gone missing” in the public record; available federal datasets and investigative reporting track deaths, transfers, releases and escapes in d...
Official government "encounter" data show roughly at U.S. borders from the start of 2020 through mid-2024, but that figure is a count of events recorded by , not a headcount of unique people . Because...
Official annual counts of deportations (removals) come primarily from DHS components such as ICE and the Office of Homeland Security Statistics; ICE publishes removal totals and OHSS provides monthly ...
(unauthorized or undocumented immigrants) living in each vary significantly depending on methodology and data vintage: major analytic centers publish divergent national totals—roughly 11.0 million (DH...
Between 2009 and 2017, public records relevant to use-of-force incidents exist in several categories—internal ICE/Department of Homeland Security () directives and detention standards, Inspector Gener...
Claims about deportations under President George W. Bush are often framed by two different measures: "removals" (formal deportations) and "returns" (administrative repatriations). Migration Policy Ins...
There is no authoritative tally in the available reporting that specifies how many have been deported "so far"; official removal statistics published by and count and do not produce a clear, public ru...
and publish —not a definitive tally of unique individuals—so the official public record does not provide a clear number of distinct people who crossed the . Independent reporting and oversight documen...
From available government and independent analyses, interior removals fell substantially over the past decade while have fluctuated with policy shifts: removals from the interior averaged roughly 155,...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) treats "removals" and "returns" as distinct categories of repatriation: removals are formal actions that carry administrative (and sometimes criminal) penalti...
Available public data and reporting do not provide a clear, consistent year-by-year breakdown of total deportations in 2025 by country of origin comparable to official annual totals for 2021–2024. Gov...
Between January 20, 2025, and November 9, 2025, available public records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and related reporting do not present a single, unambiguous DHS figure for the nu...
distinguish three related but legally and operationally distinct outcomes: removals (formal orders of deportation with penalties), returns (movements out without an order and typically no administrati...