How many lawful permanent residents were arrested by ICE in 2025 by month and state?
Executive summary
The specific count of lawful permanent residents (LPRs) arrested by ICE in 2025 broken down by month and by state is not present in the reporting supplied; public sources referenced here provide high-level arrest and detention totals, trends in where and how ICE carried out arrests, and datasets that could contain the needed breakdown but do not appear in the excerpts provided [1] [2] [3]. Therefore, this analysis documents what the reporting does show about overall ICE arrests and points to where a month-by-state LPR breakdown might be obtained or reconstructed [4] [5].
1. What the sources do show about ICE arrest volume in 2025
Multiple outlets and datasets cited by reporting document a dramatic surge in ICE activity in 2025: The Guardian’s tracking through mid-December reports the administration “arrested more than 328,000” people since January 2025 and held record detention populations above 68,000 as of mid-December [1]; independent trackers and analyses likewise describe monthly arrest rates that reached tens of thousands—Stateline noted rates “more than 30,000 a month” through mid-October [6]—and Prison Policy reports average daily arrest rates rising from about 350 per day in late January to over 500 per day in August, with other-location arrests peaking near 700 per day in late May/early June [2].
2. What the reporting does not provide: LPR counts by month and state
None of the supplied snippets present a table or dataset explicitly enumerating arrests of lawful permanent residents by month and state for 2025; the ICE ERO statistics page and DHS OHSS monthly tables exist as sources of operational arrest and book-in data but the excerpts here only describe scope and aggregation, not a disaggregated LPR-by-month-state table [4] [3]. As a result, it is not possible from these passages to produce the exact monthly state-level counts requested without accessing the underlying OHSS Persist dataset, ICE’s ERO raw arrest records, or FOIA-obtained individual-level arrest data referenced by academic researchers [3] [5].
3. Where that missing breakdown likely lives and how to obtain it
The most promising place to find month-by-state counts of arrested LPRs is the OHSS “Persist” monthly tables that DHS constructs from operational reports, which the OHSS page says is updated monthly and contains arrest and book-in tables by citizenship and criminality [3]. ICE’s own ERO statistics dashboards sometimes publish aggregate arrest and book-in counts and could contain citizenship or status cross-tabs, though the public dashboards released to date in excerpts describe trends through Dec 31, 2024 rather than detailed 2025 disaggregations [4]. Researchers who have produced more granular arrest estimates obtained individual-level ICE records via FOIA lawsuits—examples cited by the Deportation Data Project—suggest FOIA or litigation channels are effective when public dashboards omit needed detail [5].
4. Proxy indicators and caveats for estimating LPR arrests
Several sources indicate a changing composition of people arrested (for example, a growing share without criminal convictions), and ICE’s shifts in coding/location fields and reliance on local jails complicate simple reconstructions [7] [2]. That said, proxies exist: “book-ins” to ICE detention by citizenship or criminality in OHSS tables can be used to approximate interior arrests, and FOIA datasets used by academic teams have allowed reconstruction of state- and county-level patterns in past research [3] [5]. Any proxy estimate must account for transfers from local jails, incomplete location coding, and ICE categorization changes that the Prison Policy briefing flags as obscuring details [2].
5. Practical next steps to answer the question precisely
To produce a definitive month-by-state count of LPR arrests in 2025 requires retrieving the OHSS Persist monthly tables for each month of 2025 and/or the ICE ERO arrest/book-in line-level data; if those public files do not disaggregate by lawful permanent resident status, a FOIA request to ICE for 2025 ERO arrest records with immigration status, arrest date, and arresting location fields (or working from the Deportation Data Project’s FOIA-obtained files) would be the route researchers cited in the reporting have used [3] [5]. The reporting cautions that data corrections and coding shifts will require careful cleaning and may change preliminary totals [2].