How many lawful permanent residents (green card holders) were arrested or deported by ICE in 2025?

1. The headline totals reporters can cite — but they don’t answer the LPR question

Multiple outlets and data projects document that 2025 was a year of sweeping interior enforcement: The Guardian’s tracking of ICE’s releases reports more than 328,000 arrests and nearly 327,000 deportations by mid‑December 2025 ^[1], and the Deportation Data Project and Migration Policy Institute documented dramatic increases in arrests, detentions and removals through 2025 ^{[2] [4]}; nevertheless, those aggregate numbers are not disaggregated in the available reporting to show how many of those arrested or removed were lawful permanent residents ^{[1] [2]}.

2. Why public datasets and reporting fall short on LPR counts

The datasets used by researchers and journalists have important gaps and coding changes: the Deportation Data Project’s FOIA-derived release through Oct. 15, 2025, is recommended for analysis but contains missing identifiers and incomplete location information that complicate linking arrests to final outcomes or to legal status categories such as “lawful permanent resident” ^{[2] [3]}; the Prison Policy Initiative explicitly warns that ICE’s shifting coding practices in 2025 obscured details and required careful reclassification for analysis ^[3]. Those documented data limitations explain why a precise LPR total is not visible in the cited coverage.

3. ICE’s public stats show categories, but not the neat LPR tally journalists need

ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations statistics break arrests and removals into criminality and citizenship columns and disclose arrests “by country of citizenship” and categories of criminal history, but the public ICE pages summarized here do not offer a single, plainly labeled “lawful permanent resident” total for 2025 in the coverage provided ^[5]. Analysts sometimes infer status from related fields, but doing so requires access to linked identifiers and consistent coding — exactly the linkage the Deportation Data Project notes is sometimes missing ^{[2] [3]}.

4. Conflicting narratives about who was targeted underscore the need for status‑level data

Government spokespeople emphasize that a large share of arrestees had criminal convictions (CNN cites DHS saying 70% had convictions or pending charges), while independent analyses find a rising share of arrests were for immigration violations with no criminal record — a tension that can only be resolved by transparent, status‑level data including LPR counts ^{[6] [7]}. Without a specific LPR field consistently reported or released for 2025 in the sources here, extracting an authoritative number is not possible from the supplied reporting.

5. What the sources do allow — and where to look next for the precise figure

The reporting points to where an accurate LPR count could be obtained if released: the Deportation Data Project’s FOIA dataset (mid‑October 2025 release) and DHS’s Office of Homeland Security Statistics monthly Persist dataset are the primary repositories that, when fully linked and cleaned, can produce removals/ arrests by immigration status ^{[2] [8]}. Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) and ICE’s own statistics pages also track detention and removals and could contain status breakdowns in their raw tables even if the articles here did not extract them ^{[9] [5]}. The supplied reporting does not, however, include a sourced numeric answer for the number of lawful permanent residents arrested or deported in 2025.

6. Bottom line — a definitive number is not contained in the provided reporting

Based on the supplied sources, journalists can state the scale of 2025 enforcement in aggregate and document debates about targets and data quality, but cannot state how many green card holders were arrested or deported in 2025 because none of the cited pieces or datasets in this packet publishes that specific figure or a clean, linkable field for “lawful permanent resident” for the full year ^{[1] [2] [3] [5]}.