How many green card holders were deported by ICE in 2025 and 2026 according to official DHS data?
Executive summary
Official DHS and ICE publications and prominent secondary trackers provide headline totals for removals in 2025 and the early part of FY2026, but none of the provided DHS/ICE documents or public data releases in the reporting set give a clear, published count of how many lawful permanent residents (“green card holders”) were specifically deported in 2025 or 2026, so a precise, DHS‑attributed number for that subgroup cannot be reported from these sources [1] [2] [3].
1. What the official DHS/ICE publications report about total removals
DHS press releases and ICE data feeds put total removal counts in the hundreds of thousands for the period beginning January 20, 2025: DHS claimed more than 605,000 deportations since that date in a December 2025 statement and earlier said over 527,000 deportations by late October 2025 [3] [4], while independent analysts using ICE and detention-management feeds estimated roughly 310,000–340,000 removals for FY2025 alone [5] [6].
2. What the public DHS/ICE tables actually publish and the limits they impose
DHS’s OHSS monthly tables and ICE’s enforcement statistics are framed to break out removals by categories such as citizenship, criminality, and arresting agency and to enumerate removals and returns—yet the cited OHSS description emphasizes that the Persist Dataset is the operational record and that tables are updated monthly, without an extracted, publicly summarized figure for removals of lawful permanent residents in the materials supplied here [1]. The Deportation Data Project and ICE FOIA releases provide granular encounter and arrest datasets through mid‑October 2025, but the available summaries from those sources in this reporting collection do not present a single published DHS total enumerating “green card holder removals” for 2025 or 2026 [2] [7].
3. Why direct DHS confirmation of green card removals is elusive in this reporting
Public DHS/ICE messaging and outside aggregators focus on overall removal volumes, detention counts, and removals by citizenship or criminality, not always on immigration status categories like “lawful permanent resident” in headline releases; this means that while DHS provides removal totals and the OHSS tables can in principle be queried, the specific breakdown requested—green card holders removed in calendar years 2025 and 2026—is not extractable from the cited public summaries without running or citing the underlying OHSS or ICE datasets themselves, which are not reproduced here [1] [2].
4. Secondary estimates and why they do not substitute for an official DHS count
Analysts and nonprofits have produced estimates and snapshots—Migration Policy Institute estimated about 340,000 deportations in FY2025 [6], Brookings offered a 310,000–315,000 estimate for 2025 removals [5], and TRAC and other trackers provided rolling FY totals into early FY2026 [8]—but these estimates concern total removals and are produced by combining ICE feeds, detention management reports, and independent inference; none of the cited analyst products are the same as an explicit, official DHS figure stating “X green card holders removed in 2025/2026,” and DHS’s own press statements present aggregate deportation totals rather than that specific status breakdown [8] [3].
5. Alternative viewpoints, implicit agendas and what this silence implies
Advocacy groups and policy shops highlight the human and legal stakes of interior enforcement and spotlight cases of detained lawful permanent residents [9], while DHS and ICE emphasize headline removal totals and operational success metrics [3] [4]; both frames can be factually grounded yet serve divergent agendas—DHS to demonstrate enforcement throughput, and advocates to emphasize rights and due‑process concerns—so the absence of an easy public count of green card removals may reflect reporting practice and data‑presentation choices as much as lack of tracking [9] [3].
6. Bottom line answer to the question asked
Based on the official DHS and ICE materials and the cited public reporting provided here, there is no explicit, published DHS figure in these sources that states how many lawful permanent residents (green card holders) were deported by ICE in 2025 and 2026; available DHS/ICE releases and independent trackers supply total removal counts and estimates but not the specific, DHS‑reported count of green card holders deported for those years in the supplied material [1] [2] [3] [6].