Where can the official ICE table of removals by fiscal year be downloaded for FY2009–FY2016?

1. Where the single consolidated table lives: DHS Yearbook Table 39

The most straightforward single table that includes FY2009–FY2016 is Table 39 in the DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, labeled “Aliens Removed or Returned: Fiscal Years 1892 to 2019,” which is hosted by the Office of Homeland Security Statistics and is explicitly described as containing removals and returns across the indicated span of fiscal years ^[1].

2. ICE’s own archived removal-statistics pages and FY-specific PDFs

ICE also publishes year-focused ERO removal reports and archived pages that include downloadable PDFs and summary tables — for example, the ICE archived page for FY2016 summarizes Enforcement and Removal Operations removal activities and links to a removal-stats PDF that presents FY2016 figures and context ^{[2] [3]}. Similar ICE PDFs exist for FY2015 and nearby years and are presented as ERO reports or end-of-year summaries that can be downloaded from ICE’s removal-statistics archive ^{[4] [3]}.

3. Why use DHS Yearbook vs. ICE PDFs — differences and editorial choices

DHS’s Yearbook Table 39 provides a consolidated, historical series intended for statistical reference across many decades and is therefore the canonical single-table source for a multi-year span including FY2009–FY2016 ^[1]. By contrast, ICE’s annual ERO reports and archived pages provide programmatic narrative, methodological notes (including ICE’s practice of “locking” removal statistics beginning in FY2009), and contextual breakdowns by criminality, arresting agency and citizenship that are useful for interpretation but are organized by fiscal year rather than as one long historical column ^{[2] [5]}.

4. Important methodological caveats to heed when downloading and citing these tables

ICE began “locking” removal statistics on October 5 of each fiscal year starting in FY2009, meaning counts were fixed at that point and later-confirmed removals were allocated to the following fiscal year — a methodological note published on ICE pages and reiterated across the archived reports that affects year-to-year comparability and should be considered when using FY2009–FY2016 figures ^{[2] [5]}. Users seeking record-level data or wanting to toggle between monthly and fiscal-year aggregations should note that third-party tools like TRAC allow a “by Fiscal Year” toggle and provide individual-record exports, but those are separate data tools from the official DHS/ICE tables ^[6].

5. How to obtain the files right now (practical download guidance)

Download the consolidated table from DHS’s OHSS Yearbook at the Table 39 page for “Aliens Removed or Returned: Fiscal Years 1892 to 2019” (this contains FY2009–FY2016) ^[1]. For ICE’s fiscal-year reports and the FY2016 removal-stats PDF, retrieve the archived ERO removal-statistics pages on ICE’s site where the FY2016 report and linked PDF are posted ^{[2] [3]}. For researchers who want individual-level or monthly-to-FY toggles, consult the TRAC removal data tools described by TRAC’s “About the Data – All ICE Removals” page ^[6]. Each of these sources includes documentation on definitions (removal vs. return) and locking practices in the accompanying notes ^{[1] [2] [6]}.

6. Limits of available reporting and alternative pathways

This reporting identifies the DHS OHSS Table 39 and ICE archived ERO reports as the official downloadable sources for FY2009–FY2016, and acknowledges TRAC as a complementary granular tool; if a differently formatted “official ICE table” is being sought (for example, a single ICE-hosted multi-year CSV), that exact artifact may not be identified in these sources and cannot be asserted to exist without further retrieval or a live site search beyond the provided reporting ^{[1] [2] [6]}.