There is currently no reliable, comprehensive number for how many people were killed by undocumented immigrants in 2025 in the United States, and any precise figure you see online should be treated as an estimate or a political claim, not a verified statistic.

Why there is no solid 2025 number

Several structural issues make your exact question essentially unanswerable with precision:

  • Police and FBI crime databases generally do not track or publish offenders’ immigration status in a systematic way, so you cannot just look up “undocumented” versus “citizen” killers for 2025.
  • When immigration status does appear in news or official statements, it is inconsistent, often incomplete, and sometimes wrong, making any national count stitched from media reports very shaky.
  • Independent projects that try to list people “killed by illegal immigrants” rely on ad‑hoc news searches, advocacy submissions, and law‑enforcement quotes; by their own nature they are incomplete and cannot yield a true nationwide total.

So if you see a very specific number (for example “X,000 Americans killed by illegals in year Y”), that number is almost certainly a rough compilation or a politically motivated construction, not an official, fully documented statistic.

What we can say about immigrants and violence

Even though we can’t answer “how many in 2025” precisely, there is a lot of research on immigration and crime more broadly:

  • Large-scale studies using state and federal data consistently find that both documented and undocumented immigrants are less likely to be arrested for or convicted of violent crimes than native‑born U.S. citizens, when you compare people living in the same places and time periods.
  • A 2025 policy analysis using victimization data (survey-based, not just arrests) found immigrants had substantially lower violent‑victimization rates than U.S.-born people, which lines up with the broader literature that immigrants tend to be less involved in violent offending.
  • Multiple scholarly reviews have concluded that cities or states with more immigrants do not see higher overall crime; in many cases crime is the same or lower compared with similar places with fewer immigrants.

An important nuance: individual cases where an undocumented person commits a homicide are real and devastating, but they are exceptional in the statistical sense, not representative of immigrant communities as a whole.

About viral lists and advocacy sites

You will find websites and social‑media posts claiming to list “Americans killed by illegal immigrants,” sometimes with running totals. These have several common issues:

  • They typically only include cases where immigration status was made a focus in media or political debate, which heavily biases what gets counted.
  • They rarely provide a denominator (how many total killings occurred and what fraction involved undocumented people), which is necessary to understand risk.
  • Because they rely on open-source news, they miss many cases and can double‑count or misclassify others, so they cannot provide an accurate national number for 2025.

One recent analysis arguing that you are “more likely to be killed by ICE/CBP than by an undocumented immigrant” makes the opposite political point but stresses the same underlying fact: there is no solid, official dataset that lets anyone give a definitive nationwide count; at best, one can compile partial cases to illustrate patterns or rhetoric.

How to interpret the risk in 2025 terms

Given all of this, the safest evidence-based way to answer your question is:

  • We do not have a trustworthy, official count of people killed by undocumented immigrants in 2025.
  • The best available empirical research indicates that undocumented immigrants, like immigrants overall, offend at lower rates than native‑born citizens, meaning that in 2025 the share of all homicides committed by undocumented immigrants was almost certainly small relative to the total number of killings in the country.
  • Any precise 2025 number you encounter is an estimate derived from partial media and law‑enforcement reports and should be read as part of a political or advocacy narrative, not as a definitive crime statistic.

Bottom line: we can say that homicides by undocumented immigrants in 2025 almost certainly represented a small fraction of overall killings in the U.S., but we cannot honestly give a precise, authoritative count for “how many people were killed,” because the necessary official data do not exist in public form.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.