President Trump admitted his hardline immigration policy went too far after the GOP’s sweeping losses in the midterm elections last week.
Trump said his administration’s rapid deportations turned off some Americans during a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday, following Republicans losing the Hispanic vote last Tuesday.
“I think it was too tough,” the president said of his deportation policy.
“For getting people out, I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out,” he said. “But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that– that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally.”
Latino voters who swung to the right in 2024 reversed course in Tuesday’s elections, shifting dramatically to the left. In battleground states with large Latino populations, like Texas, Democrats won governorships and Senate seats.
Overall, Democrats won control of both the House and Senate — and Hispanic voters, who turned out for Trump in the 2024 election, played a significant role in the historic sweep.
Just one in three Hispanic voters said they cast their ballot for a Republican in their respective US House race on Tuesday, while roughly four in ten voted for Trump two years ago, according to The AP Voter Poll of over 100,000 midterm voters. --->READ MORE HERE
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The White House wouldn't rule out working with Democrats despite Trump's '60 Minutes' interview drawing conservative backlash
The White House on Monday morning wouldn't rule out the administration working with Democrats on a "deal" for illegal immigrants who have been living in the U.S. for more than a decade as Republicans prepare to lose control of Congress in January.
President Donald Trump, in his first sit-down interview since sweeping GOP midterm losses, opened the door to the possibility of considering amnesty.
"The President never said the word amnesty," a White House official insisted to Fox News Digital.
"We want Democrats to show their cards," the official revealed.
They said, "There has never been a President stronger on immigration enforcement than President Trump."
"Thanks to his efforts more than 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. and we have the most secure border in American history. Like the President has said, he’s willing to work with anyone to improve the lives of Americans and Make America Safe Again."
In a "60 Minutes" interview that aired on Sunday, host Ross Douthat asked Trump how he is open to working with Democrats on immigration as he enters a lame-duck final stretch of his presidency.
"I'd love to do something on immigration," the president replied. "I think [immigration] both helped and hurt. I think I got an A+ for closing up the border. I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out, but I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation or breaking of the law — that was that they came into the country illegally."
Trump, however, maintained that there are people in the United States who want to see all illegal aliens deported.
But, Trump said, "if they're good people working in a landscaping company or working in a hotel, or doing something, right? And in some cases paying taxes, and there's a large group of people that think they should be allowed to stay."
"When you go into a hotel and you have a woman that's working there as a maid, as a cleaner as a this as a that, as a waitress, a lot of good things, great jobs, and all of a sudden they're being taken out of the country, it's tough. It's a tough thing," he said, adding that people who he called "far-right" want deportations regardless of whether the illegal alien is working. --->READ MORE HERE
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