How many lawful permanent residents were deported in 2025 by country of origin?
Executive summary
There is no publicly available, authoritative breakdown showing how many lawful permanent residents (LPRs, “green card” holders) were deported in 2025 by country of origin; federal removal totals for 2025 are reported, but agencies and public datasets do not publish a comprehensive LPR-by-country deportation table for that year [1] [2]. Reporting from DHS and ICE provides overall removal counts and nationality highlights, while watchdogs and researchers note gaps and lack of transparency about the immigration status of many removed people [3] [2] [4].
1. What the official numbers actually show — totals, not LPR-by-country
DHS and ICE released headline removal figures for 2025 — in press statements DHS claimed more than half a million removals by late 2025 and over 605,000 removals through December in one release, and ICE maintains a statistics portal with enforcement and removal summaries — but those public tallies aggregate removals across categories and do not present a reliable, public cross-tabulation of removals limited to lawful permanent residents by country of origin [3] [5] [2].
2. Why researchers and reporters can’t give the LPR-by-country list the user asks for
Multiple independent accounts and investigations underscore that DHS/ICE datasets and monthly tables focus on encounters, removals, and broad nationality tallies; specialized breakdowns — for example, removals of only LPRs by country — are not routinely published, and investigations have concluded no comprehensive public data exists that isolates legal permanent residents removed at ports of entry or in interior enforcement by nationality [6] [1] [2].
3. What related public indicators do reveal (and their limitations)
TracReports and court-processing snapshots show which nationalities have the most removal orders or deportation cases in immigration court — Mexico, for instance, topped the list for nationalities with the largest number ordered removed in FY 2025 according to court data — but those figures mix noncitizens of many statuses (undocumented, parolees, asylum seekers, LPRs) and do not map directly to LPR deportations by country [4]. ICE’s categorical arrest statistics explain enforcement priorities (criminal convictions, pending charges, and immigration violations) but again do not isolate lawful permanent resident removals by origin country [2].
4. Political claims versus verifiable breakdowns — a transparency gap
DHS press releases in 2025 touted millions leaving the U.S. and hundreds of thousands of removals — statements that carry political messaging and broad aggregate counts — yet those releases do not fill the specific data gap about which removals were of LPRs and from which countries, a distinction that independent outlets and legal advocates repeatedly note is missing from DHS public reporting [5] [3] [1].
5. What can be done to answer the question definitively in future reporting
A definitive LPR-by-country deportation table would require DHS/ICE to publish removal datasets that flag immigration status at the time of removal and nationality for each record, or for researchers to obtain individual-level administrative data via FOIA or interagency data-sharing; absent that, public claims about LPR removals by country rest on partial indicators and investigative estimates rather than a single authoritative public source [6] [1].
6. Bottom line for readers seeking the exact numbers
There is no authoritative public source among the provided reporting that lists how many lawful permanent residents were deported in 2025 by country of origin; existing DHS/ICE totals and court/nationality summaries document broad removal activity and which nationalities most often receive removal orders, but they do not provide a country-by-country count restricted to lawful permanent residents [3] [2] [4] [1].