Trump open to immigration deal, calls crackdown ‘too tough,’ despite Miller promotion

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday his mass deportation campaign, which helped propel his return to the Oval Office, had gone too far and potentially led to Republicans losing the U.S. House and Senate in the midterm elections. “I think it might be too tough, yeah,” Trump said in the interview with Ross Douthat of “60 Minutes”. “And a lot of people would say that it’s great. But a lot of people think it’s too tough.” He added that he thinks his immigration crackdown “both helped and hurt” him in the midterm elections. “When you go into a hotel and you say, ‘Let me see your pass,’ and you have a woman that’s worked there as a, you know, as a maid, as a cleaner, as a this, as a that, as a waitress, a lotta good things, great job, and all of a sudden, they’re being taken out of the country, it’s tough,” Trump said.

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