How many lawful permanent residents (green card holders) were deported by ICE in 2025–2026?
Executive summary
The available public reporting and datasets show that ICE and related analysts recorded hundreds of thousands of removals in 2025, but none of the supplied sources provide a clear, published tally of how many of those removals were lawful permanent residents (green card holders) deported across 2025–2026; the Migration Policy Institute estimated about 340,000 total deportations in FY2025 [1] while media trackers report totals near 327,000 for calendar‑year 2025 [2], but the specific LPR subset is not enumerated in the documents provided.
1. What the headline numbers say about total deportations
Public trackers and research groups documenting ICE’s surge in removals report very large totals for 2025: the Migration Policy Institute estimated roughly 340,000 deportations in FY2025, encompassing formal removals and voluntary departures [1], and news organizations using ICE’s biweekly detention and removals releases calculated totals “near” 327,000 deportations through late 2025 [2]; ICE itself publishes removals and detention tables that underpin these tallies, but those aggregated tables report removals by broad categories rather than a simple public line item labeled “lawful permanent residents removed” in the materials supplied here [3] [4].
2. Why a single LPR number is hard to produce from public releases
ICE’s public statistics and the Deportation Data Project updates used by researchers provide arrest, detention and removal counts and often break out criminality or arresting agency, but the most recent ICE data release referenced here covers enforcement through mid‑October 2025 and has well‑documented limits in identifiers and coding that hamper granular cross‑tabulation [5] [6]; the enforcement and monthly DHS tables exist and are updated regularly [7], yet none of the supplied excerpts include a straightforward, verified total of removals specifically of lawful permanent residents for 2025–2026.
3. What the available sources do report about who is being removed
Analysts and NGOs emphasize that a large share of removals in 2025 were of noncitizens detained in the interior rather than newly encountered at the border, and that many detainees had no criminal conviction or only minor offenses—context that affects who faces removal but does not directly reveal the LPR count [1] [8] [6]; ICE’s own public materials categorize arrests into convictions, pending charges, or civil immigration violations, which is useful context but again not a direct LPR headcount in the documents provided [4] [3].
4. Alternate paths to the specific figure and why they matter
A precise answer would require running ICE’s Removals: FY2025/FY2026 tables and the DHS OHSS monthly removals tables with person‑level identifiers or citizenship/status breakdowns—or requesting a focused data extract from ICE or DHS under FOIA—because available secondary analyses aggregate removals without consistently isolating lawful permanent resident status [7] [5]; given the political stakes and advocacy positions around mass deportation, researchers caution that data coding changes and incomplete location/identifier fields have skewed attempts to isolate subgroups in ICE datasets [6].
5. The takeaways and what reporting does and does not support
The supplied reporting robustly supports the conclusion that total ICE removals were extraordinarily high in 2025 (estimates around 327,000–340,000 are documented) and that interior enforcement increased sharply [1] [2], but it does not provide a verifiable numeric answer to “How many lawful permanent residents were deported by ICE in 2025–2026?” without further data pulls or agency clarification [1] [5]; any precise LPR figure would need to be sourced from ICE/DHS removal tables that specifically code immigration status or from a bespoke dataset release or FOIA response.