So what about the ones who are going through the process and are being arrested when they show up for their hearings and their proceedings stopped? Those people were doing everything they were supposed to do but I guess they are vermin too, right?
There is no publicly available data providing a specific count of legal immigrants (e.g., lawful permanent residents or green card holders) arrested by ICE since the start of President Trump’s second administration on January 20, 2025.
ICE and DHS consistently describe the vast majority—if not all—of their enforcement actions and arrests as targeting “illegal aliens,” including those with criminal convictions and non-criminals without legal status.
Official statistics focus on total arrests, detentions, criminal history, and removals, without breaking down by prior legal immigration status (e.g., LPR vs. undocumented).
• In the first 100 days (through late April 2025), ICE reported over 65,000 arrests, explicitly labeled as “illegal aliens” (including thousands of gang members and criminals).
• Detention reached record highs (over 68,000 by December 2025), with reports indicating significant arrests of non-criminals (e.g., ~75,000 with no criminal records in some datasets), but these are overwhelmingly individuals without legal status.
Lawful permanent residents are generally not deportable without serious criminal convictions or other grounds (e.g., fraud). While some deportable LPRs with criminal records may be included in “criminal alien” arrests, no sources separate or highlight such cases, and they appear to represent a small fraction (historically low in prior years, often in the low thousands annually for removals).
Isolated reports exist of potential collateral effects (e.g., airport screenings leading to arrests), but no evidence shows widespread targeting of non-deportable legal immigrants.
In summary, based on ICE’s own reporting and available analyses, arrests of true legal immigrants (non-deportable) appear negligible or zero, with enforcement overwhelmingly focused on undocumented individuals.
This is from Grok but I’d say it has happened, regrettably. When dealing with millions of illegal immigrants, it’s irrational to assume mistakes will not be made occasionally.