Trump says after midterms defeat his immigration crackdown was ‘too tough’
US President Donald Trump has said his immigration crackdown was “too tough”, marking one of his clearest public retreats from a defining plank of his political agenda, following his party’s drubbing in the midterm elections. In an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes programme, Trump said he believed he deserved an “A plus” for drastically limiting [...] The post Trump says after midterms defeat his…
Following his party’s substantial losses in the midterm elections, US President Donald Trump revealed in an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes that his aggressive immigration crackdown was "too tough." The president suggested that while he believed he merited an "A plus" for reducing illegal border crossings, the stringent deportations had politically wounded him.
Despite the Homeland Security Department's insistence that they were not backing away from the crackdown, Trump acknowledged that immigration both helped and hurt his fellow Republicans during the midterms. In historically conservative states like Texas, a shift in Latino voters towards Democrats contributed to the Democrats' landslide victories in Congress.
Trump also expressed openness to negotiating immigration reform with congressional Democrats, although he did not provide further details. This marked a stark contrast to a previous interview where Trump had vowed that the administration's immigration raids "haven't gone far enough."
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