How many lawful permanent residents were deported by ICE in fiscal years 2024–2026, by year and reason?
Executive summary
There is no complete, public tally in the materials provided that states how many lawful permanent residents (LPRs) were deported by ICE in fiscal years 2024, 2025 and 2026 broken down by year and reason; ICE and DHS publish overall removals and categorize removals by criminal status versus immigration violations, but the specific subset identified as “lawful permanent residents” is not reported in the cited sources [1] [2] [3]. Available official and researcher dashboards supply total removals for FY2024 (~271,480) and for FY2025 (~329,018 as calculated from ICE figures), and partial FY2026 counts reported in mid‑FY sources (56,392 through an early FY2026 update), but they do not disaggregate those totals into LPRs by legal reason for removal in the documentation provided [3] [4] [5].
1. What ICE and DHS actually publish about removals (and why that matters)
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) dashboards and DHS monthly tables give removal totals and classify removals into broad categories — individuals with criminal convictions, those with pending criminal charges, and those with no convictions but who violated immigration law — which is the principal way the agencies explain reasons for removal, but those public products in the materials at hand do not present a clear, separate line for lawful permanent residents removed each fiscal year [1] [2] [6].
2. The best available headline totals for FY2024–FY2026 from the sources
Using ICE and DHS reporting cited by independent analysts, FY2024 removals attributable to ICE are reported at roughly 271,480 people (ICE/OHSS reporting summarized by analysts) and FY2025 removals reported by ICE increase to about 329,018 — numbers consistent with data compilations cited in the provided analysis — while FY2026 reporting in early releases notes 56,392 removals so far in that fiscal year (these are agency or research project totals cited in public reporting), but these are total removals, not an LPR subset [3] [4] [5].
3. Reasons for removal reported by ICE and how they map (imperfectly) to LPRs
ICE classifies removals into three enforcement reason buckets: convicted criminals, people with pending criminal charges, and individuals with no known convictions but who violated immigration law (including re‑entry after removal, overstays, visa violations) — and this is how “reason” is usually presented in federal statistics, which means any LPR removed would appear within one of those buckets but the sources do not extract LPRs specifically from those categories in the supplied datasets [1] [2] [6].
4. Where the blind spots are and what that implies for answering the question
None of the provided source snippets include a line item “lawful permanent residents removed” or a public ICE/OHSS table broken out by immigration status at removal for FY2024–FY2026; researchers and advocacy groups maintain mirrored datasets (Deportation Data Project, academic analyses) that improve transparency but even those releases cited here emphasize that identifying LPR status and linking it reliably to removal reason can be limited by missing identifiers and inconsistent public fields [5] [7].
5. Alternative data routes and political context to consider
Analysts and watchdogs have used ICE raw datasets and DHS monthly tables to estimate composition of removals and note policy changes affect the profile of who is removed (detention expansions, shifting priorities), but those estimates require work not present in the supplied excerpts and may be influenced by institutional agendas on both transparency and rhetoric about “criminal removals” versus civil immigration enforcement [8] [9] [7].
6. Bottom line: what can be stated with confidence and what remains unanswered
It can be stated confidently, based on the materials provided, that ICE removed roughly 271,480 people in FY2024 and roughly 329,018 in FY2025 (agency and analyst compilations) and reported partial FY2026 removals around 56,392 as of an early FY reporting point; however, the precise number of those removals who were lawful permanent residents and the breakdown of their removals by legal reason (criminal conviction, pending charge, immigration violation, denaturalization, or other grounds) is not available in the cited sources and therefore cannot be credibly reported here without additional data releases or bespoke analysis of ICE case files [3] [4] [5] [1].