What were the annual numbers of LPR removals by ICE from FY2015 to FY2024 in the DHS Yearbook tables?
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Executive summary
The DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics publishes tables that break down removals by immigration status — including lawful permanent residents (LPRs, “green card” holders) — and covers fiscal years through 2024, but the exact LPR-removal counts for FY2015–FY2024 are contained inside those Yearbook tables and are not reproduced in the supplied excerpts; locating the annual numbers requires consulting the specific Yearbook tables (Yearbook pages and PDFs) where “Noncitizen Removals” are tabulated [1] [2] [3].
1. What the Yearbook contains and where LPR counts live
DHS’s Yearbook is an annual compilation that includes detailed enforcement tables on apprehensions, removals, returns, and expulsions, and it explicitly states that lawful permanent residents are included among the classifications tallied in those tables [1] [2] [4]; the FY2022 Yearbook PDF and associated tables include historical tables such as “Noncitizen Removals, Returns, and Expulsions: Fiscal Years 1892 to 2022” and specific breakdowns like “Noncitizen Removals by Criminal Status and Region and Country of Nationality,” which is the type of table that typically contains LPR rows [3].
2. Why this question often becomes murky in reporting
Public reporting sometimes cites ICE’s internal removal tallies in quarterly or annual releases rather than the Yearbook tables, leading to apparent inconsistencies: ICE’s ERO statistics and annual report list aggregate removal totals and quarter-to-quarter updates [5] [6], while the Yearbook is the DHS statistical product intended to present standardized annual tables [1] [2]; these different sources can be formatted or filtered differently, which is why a researcher should extract LPR-specific rows from the Yearbook tables themselves [3].
3. Data quality and reconciliation caveats
Independent analysts have flagged that ICE’s internal datasets sometimes include or exclude certain kinds of removals (for example, expedited removals or voluntary returns not processed by ICE), and releases have been revised when those definitions caused discrepancies; a recent example notes a late-July correction for FY2024 removals that better matched ICE’s annual report and suggested prior files had misclassified some observations [7]. That history matters because the Yearbook’s published tables reflect DHS’s chosen definitions and final reconciliations for a fiscal year, so researchers should prefer Yearbook table cells as the canonical LPR counts while checking ICE’s ERO releases for operational context [1] [7].
4. How to obtain the FY2015–FY2024 LPR removal numbers now
The Yearbook pages and PDFs listed in DHS’s Yearbook site contain the exact numeric cells: consult the Yearbook pages for each fiscal year (for example, the 2015 Yearbook page, the 2022/2023/2024 Yearbook pages and the consolidated PDFs) and open the tables titled along the lines of “Noncitizen Removals by …” or the historical removals table; those tables contain rows for “Lawful permanent residents” [8] [9] [3] [1]. If a machine-readable extract or replication is needed, the Yearbook site and the PDFs on the OHSS pages are the primary sources to copy the FY2015–FY2024 LPR removal counts directly [1] [2] [3].
5. Alternate sources and why they may differ
ICE’s ERO statistics page and its annual reports provide removal totals and operational breakdowns that can be useful for cross-checking trends and quarterly activity, but those ICE files have sometimes required revisions and have methodological notes that can make their series diverge from Yearbook table counts unless the user applies the same inclusion rules [5] [6] [7]. For authoritative, comparable year-to-year LPR counts, the DHS Yearbook tables remain the recommended single source [1] [3].
6. Final assessment and next step
The question asks for the annual LPR removals from FY2015 to FY2024 in the DHS Yearbook tables; DHS publishes those numbers in its Yearbook tables, but the provided reporting excerpts do not include the explicit year-by-year LPR figures themselves — thereby requiring retrieval of the specific Yearbook tables (linked on the DHS Yearbook pages and PDFs) to extract the numeric series for FY2015–FY2024 [1] [8] [9] [3]. Given the potential for ICE dataset revisions, researchers should record the table source and table name when transcribing those Yearbook figures and cross-check ICE ERO reports for contextual corroboration [7] [6].