Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents dropped nearly 20% in July—and according to Axios , the Trump administration isn’t happy about it.

Data from the nonpartisan Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse nonprofit at Syracuse University shows that ICE made an average of 990 arrests per day between July 1 and July 27. That’s down from 1,224 daily arrests in June and nowhere near the 3,000 daily goal once floated by senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller. (That benchmark, notably, hasn’t appeared in any court filings.)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers wait to detain a person on Jan. 27 in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The drop followed a wave of backlash after masked ICE agents carried out aggressive raids in Los Angeles, where protests erupted a

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