WASHINGTON - Agents of immigration and customs enforcement are under increasing pressure to increase the number of arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants, as President Donald Trump says angry angry numbers in his administration The number of people who were deported was not higher in the first few weeks. Three sources familiar with the discussions of Ice and the White House.

A source familiar with Trump's thinking said the president is "angry" and more people are not being deported, and that information is being passed on to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, White House Deputy President Stephen’s “Border Tsar” Tom Homan Miller and acting ice director Caleb Vitello.

"It drives him crazy," said someone familiar with Trump's thoughts.

"After the complete incompetence and negligence of the Biden administration, the Trump administration has reestablished meaningless enforcement and respect for the U.S. immigration law, White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement. “Since President Trump took office, hundreds of violent, predatory and gang-affiliated criminal illegal foreigners have been frozen and deported. Put Americans and the United States first.”

A source familiar with the internal conversations in ICE said Homan had a daily conference call with ICE agents and he was known to be frustrated by the hockey numbers.

Another source said Homan was "unhappy" and "makes his dissatisfaction" with relatively few arrests and deportations.

Meanwhile, at ICE, Vitello told agents in January that the goal was to reach 1,200-1,400 arrests per day. According to figures released by ICE on X, the highest single day since Trump's opening was only 1,100, and the number has dropped since that day. More than 800 immigrants were arrested Tuesday, according to sources familiar with the numbers. But last weekend, another source told NBC News that only about 300 people were arrested.

To fulfill Trump’s promise of “millions and deportation” on his inauguration day, the Trump administration must deport more than 2,700 immigrants per day to reach one million a year.

And, as NBC News reports, arrests do not always equal immediate detention, but much less. According to the White House, 461 of the more than 8,000 immigrants arrested in the first two weeks of the Trump administration were released.