Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last month arrested the most people in at least five years, but deportations are still lagging far behind what Donald Trump has promised — and even behind those in the Obama administration, according to data obtained by NBC News.

The discrepancy between arrests and deportations highlights the challenges the Trump administration faces to make good on Trump’s Inauguration Day vow to deport “millions and millions” of immigrants.

According to ICE data, its agents arrested roughly 30,000 immigrants last month, the most since monthly data was made publicly available in November 2020. But the number of immigrants deported in June — more than 18,000 — amounted to roughly half the number of arrests, according to internal figures obtained by NBC News.

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    I don’t think it’s by design, I think they’re arrogant idiots who thought deporting tens of millions of people would be an easy thing to do, but I think the end result is that they’re making concentration camps and slave just like you say, which puts our genocide doomsday clock at about 11:59.

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      they’re arrogant idiots who thought deporting tens of millions of people would be an easy thing to do

      Most of these people in this administration have never done any real Work. They are Sociopathic Oligarchs and Aristocrats who think that pointing and telling others what to do is the equivalent of actually performing the task, and they don’t understand why results don’t happen the instant they give the order.

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      I really don’t think they ever intended for most of them to leave the country.

      And we’ve been committing genocide on immigrants for a while now with the whole separating children from parents thing.