Within the wake of the midterm elections, President Donald Trump acknowledged that he felt as if his deportation agenda had gone too far and damage his celebration with voters.
“I feel it was too robust,” Trump stated in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday evening. “And I feel — I feel in the end, that damage me,” he added.
The acknowledgement from Trump comes because the president simply elevated one of many key architects of that coverage, Stephen Miller, to switch former Chief of Employees Susie Wiles on Monday.
Whereas Trump stated the overhaul of immigration enforcement was an element within the Republican Social gathering’s losses throughout the nation throughout the midterms, he stood behind his administration’s choices on border safety and “getting the dangerous ones out.”
He stated the backlash got here right down to deporting immigrants who had “good jobs.”
“I feel I obtained an A+ for closing up the border. I get very excessive marks for getting the dangerous ones out, however I get damage as a result of we additionally took those that had good jobs,” Trump stated.
On the prospect of a doable immigration cope with Democrats following midterms, Trump acknowledged that he was open to negotiating with the opposition to try to strike a deal to create doable paths for some immigrants.
US President Donald Trump speaks at a midterm marketing campaign rally on the Ocean Heart in Daytona Seashore, Florida on October 30, 2026.
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“I would like to do one thing on immigration,” Trump stated when requested about one thing he thinks he can work with Democrats on.
“Effectively, the deal could be we might work one thing out. And I feel it is one thing — I feel that is one thing that is truly doable,” Trump stated.
Trump referenced immigrants who labored as cleaners, waitresses and landscapers. “While you go right into a resort and you’ve got a girl that is labored there as a, you recognize, as a maid, as a cleaner … as a waitress, quite a lot of good issues, nice jobs. And abruptly they’re being taken in a foreign country. It is robust. It is a robust factor.”
“Let the individuals which can be right here and in some circumstances right here for 10 and 15 years, work a deal for them,” Trump stated.
On a possible deal, Trump asserted, “Folks have already known as me,” although he didn’t say who.
Requested if he might chorus from insulting Democrats for six months with the intention to strike a deal, Trump stated that he might.
