How many women were removed by ICE in fiscal year 2025 compared with fiscal years 2022–2024, according to ICE and independent trackers?
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Executive summary
ICE’s publicly posted totals show removals rising from roughly 72,200 in FY2022 to about 142,500 in FY2023 and 271,484 in FY2024 (calculated from figures ICE reported in its FY2024 annual report) [1], while independent estimates put total FY2025 removals in the neighborhood of 310,000–315,000 [2]; however, neither ICE’s public dashboards nor independent trackers cited in this packet provide a verified, complete count of how many of those removals were women, and several trackers warn that removals tables and files for 2024–2025 contain anomalies or were omitted for correction [3] [4].
1. Overall ICE removal totals across FY2022–FY2025, by the published sources
ICE’s FY2024 annual report states ERO removed 271,484 noncitizens in FY2024 and describes that as a 90.4% increase over FY2023 and a 276.1% increase over FY2022, which implies approximate totals of ~142,543 removals in FY2023 and ~72,192 removals in FY2022 when those percentage changes are reversed from the FY2024 baseline [1]; independent analysts and institutions place FY2025 removals above FY2024, with Brookings estimating total removals for FY2025 at roughly 310,000–315,000 [2], and TRAC and other trackers maintaining interactive timelines of removals though not all have finalized FY2025 tallies in the sources provided here [5] [6].
2. What ICE’s own dashboards and OHSS tables reveal — and what they do not reveal — about gender
ICE’s public enforcement and removals dashboards and the Department’s OHSS statistical tables present removals by citizenship, criminality, arresting agency and other attributes and, separately in other outputs, detention counts by some demographic categories [7] [8]; the documents and dashboards cited in the reporting packet, however, do not provide a clear, directly cited breakdown of removals by sex for FY2022–FY2025 in the excerpts available here, and ICE’s FY2024 and related monthly files as posted do not, in the material supplied to this query, include an immediately verifiable women-only removals series that can be cited [7] [8] [1].
3. What independent trackers say — and their data limits
Independent projects that process ICE removals data, such as the Deportation Data Project, explicitly warn that ICE’s released removals files for 2024–2025 contained anomalies, missing observations, or were omitted from postings while corrections were pursued, and therefore they have at times excluded or flagged removals tables as unreliable [3] [4]; TRAC provides interactive immigration removals data and analyses but the materials cited here do not include a completed, authoritative sex-disaggregated FY2025 removals count that can be reconciled with ICE’s totals [5] [6].
4. Data quality caveats that matter for counting women removed
A substantive reporting caveat is that ICE and DHS data releases for this period have been revised, supplemented and in some cases corrected after initial publication, and watchdogs and auditors, including GAO, have urged ICE to strengthen data reporting and transparency for enforcement metrics — a recommendation that underscores why sex-disaggregated removal totals for FY2024–FY2025 may be incomplete or not yet reconciled across files [3] [9] [4].
5. Bottom line — what can be stated with confidence and what cannot
It can be stated with confidence, from ICE’s FY2024 report, that total ERO removals rose from roughly 72,200 in FY2022 to about 142,500 in FY2023 and to 271,484 in FY2024 [1], and that independent analysts place FY2025 removals at roughly 310,000–315,000 [2]; it cannot be stated, based on the ICE and independent sources provided here, how many of those removals each year were women because the cited ICE dashboards and corrected/flagged independent datasets in this packet do not present a validated, public time series of removals disaggregated by sex for FY2022–FY2025 [7] [8] [3] [4].
6. Recommended next step for anyone needing a women-specific count
To obtain a sex-disaggregated count of removals for FY2022–FY2025, the next steps are to request the OHSS monthly and yearbook tables that track removals for demographic fields (which OHSS publishes and updates monthly) and to consult the Deportation Data Project and TRAC processed files after they finalize corrected releases, while noting that ICE and independent processors have signaled corrections and omissions in the 2024–2025 removals files [7] [3] [4].