The agency charged with carrying out President Trump's mass deportation promises has warned Congress it is short a whopping $2 billion for this fiscal year, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repeatedly has faced significant budget shortfalls in recent years.

As President Donald Trump continues to tout his administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown, fears in immigrant communities over ICE arrests and deportations are at an all-time high. So far, immigration officers are falling short of President Trump’s expectation to enact the largest deportation push in American history,

President Donald Trump’s “largest-ever” mass deportation has led to the arrests of more than 32,000 illegal immigrants within the United States in his first 50 days in office, according to federal homeland security officials.