Trump says deportations were ‘too tough’ and hurt him during the midterms

President Donald Trump admitted that his aggressive immigration policies and mass deportations negatively impacted his midterm election performance. He expressed a willingness to work with Democrats on legal status for some undocumented workers while acknowledging internal friction within his administration.
Why it matters
This reflects a strategic pivot or reflection by the Trump administration regarding the political costs of hardline immigration stances.
President Donald Trump conceded that his immigration policies were “too tough,” saying in an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday that mass deportations hurt him during the midterm elections. Trump said his policies had been overly harsh in removing undocumented immigrants who hadn’t committed crimes. “I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally,” Trump said in the interview, which was recorded Friday. He added that “a large group of people” think immigrants who are “good people, working in a landscaping company or working in a hotel or doing something ...
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