How many lawful permanent residents (green card holders) were detained by ICE in 2025 according to ICE records?
Executive summary
ICE’s public dashboards and the reporting provided do not contain a single, explicit tally in these sources for how many lawful permanent residents (LPRs, “green card holders”) were detained by ICE in calendar year 2025; the agency publishes detention dashboards and category breakdowns but the documents shared here do not include a 2025 LPR-specific total . Reporting and advocacy groups document a large surge in overall detainee counts in 2025, and individual cases and documents show green card holders were among those detained, but a precise ICE-record number for LPR detentions in 2025 is not present in the supplied material .
1. ICE’s own data systems are the right place to look — but the supplied excerpt doesn’t give a 2025 LPR total
The agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) statistics portal is the official repository for arrests, detentions and removals and it presents dashboards with breakdowns “by country of citizenship and criminal history,” but the version cited in the materials here references dashboards “as of December 31, 2024” and does not, in the supplied snippets, include a clear 2025 LPR detainee count .
2. Independent reporting documents large increases in detention but reports totals, not an LPR-specific tally
Multiple nonprofit and press reports in the provided set quantify the dramatic expansion of ICE detention in 2025 — for example, analyses that the detained population rose almost 75 percent from roughly 40,000 to about 66,000 by early December 2025 — but those figures refer to total detainees, not a breakdown that isolates lawful permanent residents . These sources establish scale and context but not the exact LPR count sought.
3. Evidence shows green card holders were detained in 2025, but case-level evidence is not the same as an aggregate ICE figure
Advocates and legal guides show practices affecting green card holders — stipulations seen in detention asking people to affirm whether they are LPRs, reports of airport arrests and examples of LPRs who died in custody — which collectively demonstrate that LPRs were among those detained in 2025 . These point to the presence of LPRs in the detention system but do not supply an ICE-compiled, year‑end numeric total for LPR detentions in 2025 in the documentation provided.
4. Why an LPR-specific 2025 number might be hard to extract from public sources
ICE dashboards and public reporting often categorize detainees by citizenship, criminal history, or detention facility counts and may require filtering or a specific query to isolate lawful permanent resident status; the supplied ICE excerpt documents the existence of such dashboards but the snippet available here does not include a post‑2024 LPR-specific extract . Secondary reporting instead focuses on system-wide bed counts, facility expansion and total detainees — all necessary context but not the narrow statistic requested .
5. Bottom line answer and what to do next
Based on the documents and reporting provided, no explicit ICE-record number for how many lawful permanent residents were detained in 2025 can be identified here; the agency’s ERO statistics portal is the authoritative source referenced in these materials, and a targeted query or data pull from ICE’s 2025 dashboards would be required to produce the precise LPR total . For journalists or researchers seeking that figure, the next step is to query ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations statistics (or file a targeted FOIA request) for a 2025 aggregate of detainees identified as lawful permanent residents; the supplied sources confirm both that ICE detains LPRs in some circumstances and that detention totals rose sharply in 2025, but they do not contain the requested LPR count .