How many lawful permanent residents (green card holders) were removed by ICE in the last five fiscal years?
Executive summary
Public sources provided do not include a single, explicit tally in the excerpts for how many lawful permanent residents (LPRs, “green card” holders) were removed by ICE over the last five fiscal years; the authoritative datasets that typically break removals down by immigration status are identified (ICE ERO statistics and the DHS Office of Homeland Security Statistics Yearbook), but the exact LPR counts for FY2020–FY2024 are not quoted in the material supplied here [1] [2] [3].
1. What the user is actually asking, and what the records usually show
The question seeks a numeric, five‑year total of removals specifically of LPRs—data that is usually reported in DHS and ICE enforcement tables that disaggregate removals by immigration status and citizenship, but the snippets provided reference those sources without reproducing the LPR‑specific rows needed to compute a five‑year sum [1] [2] [3].
2. Where DHS and ICE publish the relevant data
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations statistics and dashboards are the primary public source for removals and returns, and DHS’s Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) draws on ICE operational reports to construct the Persist dataset and the Yearbook tables that historically include “aliens removed or returned” by status and year—those are the places to look for LPR counts [1] [2] [3].
3. What the supplied reporting does tell about overall trends (but not LPR totals)
The supplied reporting documents that removals fell through 2019–2021 and rose again in 2022, and that removal totals vary widely year to year—examples include the low point in FY2021 (about 59,010 removals) and much higher totals in other years; analysts and watchdogs (GAO, USAFacts, Migration Policy Institute) flag large swings and differing annual aggregates but those citations in the material address total removals, not removals of LPRs specifically [4] [5] [6].
4. Independent processors and FOIA compilations that might contain LPR counts
Projects such as TRAC’s ICE removals compilation and the Deportation Data Project ingest ICE case‑level records and have produced time series and downloadable data that can be used to extract removals of LPRs by fiscal year, but the excerpts show these projects exist without printing the exact LPR counts for FY2020–FY2024 in the supplied snippets [7] [8].
5. Why a precise answer could not be produced from the supplied excerpts
None of the supplied snippets include a direct table or line item stating “Lawful permanent residents removed” with year-by-year counts for the last five fiscal years; therefore, asserting a specific five‑year total would require accessing the ICE ERO dashboards or OHSS Yearbook tables referenced in the sources and extracting the LPR rows, which the provided material does not reproduce [1] [2] [3].
6. How to get the exact number and what to watch for when using those sources
To obtain the precise count, query ICE’s ERO removals dashboard or the OHSS Yearbook/Monthly Tables’ “Removals and Returns by citizenship, criminality, and initial arresting agency” and sum the LPR removals for the five fiscal years in question; alternative compiled datasets from TRAC or the Deportation Data Project can speed analysis but require careful validation because different compilers apply varying inclusion rules and corrections [1] [2] [7] [8].
7. Context, caveats and competing narratives
Reports and watchdogs emphasize that aggregate removals are volatile—policy shifts, resource constraints, and changing priorities affect totals—and analysts disagree about whether interior enforcement targets mainly criminal noncitizens or also includes non‑criminal LPRs; the sources highlight high‑level trends and methodological challenges but the supplied excerpts stop short of publishing the LPR‑specific counts needed to answer the question directly [4] [9] [6].