What proportion of immigrants deported for criminal convictions were lawful permanent residents vs. undocumented?

1. What the agencies publish — categories, not the simple split you asked for

ICE and DHS publish enforcement tables and press briefings that classify removals into groups: people with criminal convictions, people with pending criminal charges, and people with no convictions but immigration violations (such as visa overstays or reentry after removal) ^[1]. DHS’s public-facing releases and ICE statistics emphasize removing “criminal illegal aliens,” and DHS press statements quantify broad removal totals ^{[4] [5]}. None of the provided data tables or press materials in this collection directly report a nationwide percentage that separates deportees with criminal convictions by immigration status (lawful permanent resident vs undocumented) ^{[6] [1]}.

2. Lawful permanent residents are removable for many crimes — but removal is harder and less common than for undocumented people

Legal analysis and official guidance note that lawful permanent residents (LPRs, “green card” holders) may be deported if they commit certain crimes or meet other grounds of inadmissibility, and that in practice they face heightened scrutiny at points of entry and can be removed following criminal convictions ^{[2] [3]}. The White House statement also acknowledges LPRs are more difficult to remove than nonimmigrants but still can be subject to removal for national-security or public-safety concerns . Available sources document examples of LPRs being placed in removal proceedings, but do not give aggregate counts to enable a percent breakdown ^{[2] [7]}.

3. Reporting and think-tank estimates show most removals are framed as targeting “illegal” or undocumented migrants — but definitions and methods vary

DHS and ICE messaging in 2025 repeatedly frame removals as chiefly of “illegal aliens,” and the department has issued large aggregate tallies (e.g., hundreds of thousands of removals, or claims of over a million departures when including voluntary self-deportations) ^{[4] [5]}. Independent analysts and outlets warn those DHS tallies mix categories (interdictions, voluntary departures, and removals) and sometimes rely on broader population-change calculations, which makes firm attribution to status (LPR vs undocumented) unreliable from those numbers alone ^{[8] [9]}. Migration Policy Institute and TRAC produce estimates of overall deportations (MPI estimated about 340,000 ICE deportations in FY2025) but the materials provided do not disaggregate by immigration status for the criminal-conviction subgroup ^{[10] [11]}.

4. Court and advocacy reporting show many deportations follow criminal charges — but also that non-criminal immigration violations dominate some measures

ICE’s public categories include a sizable “no convictions/immigration violations” group (visa overstays, reentry after removal, final removal orders), and legal-practice commentators say immigration violations remain a common reason for deportation ^{[1] [3]}. TRAC’s court data shows removal orders dominate completed immigration-court cases, but it also reports only a small share of new filings explicitly allege criminal activity apart from illegal entry — indicating the bulk of court-ordered removals may be driven by immigration-law grounds rather than criminal-conviction categories in some datasets ^[11]. The mix depends strongly on which enforcement stream you examine: ICE interior arrests, CBP border turns, voluntary departures, or immigration court adjudications ^{[1] [11]}.

5. Why you can’t derive a single authoritative percentage from the sources provided

The supplied sources lack a single, harmonized table showing (a) all deportations attributable to criminal convictions, and (b) of those, how many were LPRs versus undocumented. DHS/ICE press releases and advocacy/think-tank critiques either focus on aggregate removal counts, voluntary departures, or enforcement priorities without that exact cross-tabulation ^{[4] [8] [5]}. Migration Policy Institute and TRAC give overall deportation estimates but not the specific LPR-vs-undocumented split within the “criminal conviction” subgroup in the materials provided ^{[10] [11]}.

6. What would be needed to answer your question with confidence

To produce the precise proportion you requested, one needs official, disaggregated ICE/DHS removal tables that cross-classify immigration status (LPR vs non-LPR) with removal reason (criminal conviction vs other) for the same time window. The OHSS monthly tables and ICE statistics could contain that cross-tabulation, but the specific pages and months with those counts were not included among your search results; those tables should be consulted directly for the exact breakdown ^{[6] [1]}.

Limitations: this report uses only the sources you supplied; those sources do not include the exact cross-tabulated numbers required to state a definitive proportion of deported immigrants with criminal convictions who were lawful permanent residents versus undocumented ^{[6] [1]}.