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Despite the Trump administration's media blitz showing "Cops TV-style roundups" of undocumented migrants that has struck fear even in the hearts of school children, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is falling short of President Donald Trump's promise to deport "millions" of people straight out of the gate, according to a new report in The Washington Post.

The administration's initial goals of "1,200 to 1,500 arrests per day," netted just "800 per day in late January after Trump took office to fewer than 600 during the first 13 days of February," wrote reporters Nick Miroff and Marianne LeVine.

"ICE spent weeks leading up to Inauguration Day preparing target lists of people they could arrest during the opening salvo of Trump’s promised crackdown," they wrote. However, anonymous current and former ICE officials told them that "Those target lists have been depleted, and with so many officers working six or even seven days a week, the agency has had little time to do the research, surveillance and planning required to rebuild them and coordinate arrests."...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were shot on Thursday at a federal building in the Los Angeles suburb of Long Beach and one died at the scene, the agency said.