US President Donald Trump has expelled 37,660 people during the first month of its presidency, according to unpublished information from the Ministry of Interior, much less than 57,000, on average, sent back to their country in the last year of the term of office. His predecessor, Joe Biden.

A senior US government official, as well as experts, said that deportations would increase in the coming months, when Trump finds new ways to accelerate arrests and returns.

Ministry spokesman Trisia McL they claimed that the numbers of Biden deportations appeared “artificially high” because it was higher and the level of irregular migration.

Trump promised to deport millions of irregular immigrants to the largest expulsion operation in US history. The initials, however, indicate that it may be difficult to equalize the highest rates that Biden achieved in his last year in the White House, when arrests were made by a large number of immigrants at the border and, therefore, it was easier to deport these people. To achieve his goals, Trump may take many months, with the help of agreements with other countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica) who have accepted to receive deported.

The US military helped more than twelve deportations with military aircraft heading to Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Ecuador, Peru and India. Venezuelan immigrants were also transferred to the American base of Guantanamo, Cuba, and Trump said in late January that up to 30,000 people could be held there, despite the reactions of the organizations to protect civil rights.

During the first three weeks of Trump in the presidency, the Ice and ICE arrested about 14,000 people, according to border “tsar” Tom Homant last week. This number corresponds to 667 a day and is twice the daily average of last year. But at this pace the arrests will amount to 250,000 annually and not millions, as Trump claims. In the first week of the Republican president’s term, the arrests culminated (800-1,200 a day) but then the numbers fell, after detention centers were filled and agents sent to specific cities returned to their headquarters.

Ice has a limited detention area for irregular immigrants. About 41,100 people are currently being held and its funding is sufficient for booking 41,500. About 19,000 of these detainees were arrested by Ice and the rest by the border guard authorities. Of the 19,000, 2,800 had no criminal record.

Earlier today, the Senate approved a bill that would invest $ 340 billion in a four -year period for border security, deportations, additional military spending and more. But the Republican Party remains divided over the funding of deportations, with Trump pushing to combine it with tax cuts.