US President Donald Trump has said his immigration crackdown was too harsh and was one of his mistakes. He made the remark after his party’s heavy defeat in the midterm elections. In his view, the policy of mass deportation of immigrants may have been one of the reasons for the Republican Party’s poor showing in last week’s midterms.
Trump said this in his first television interview since the party lost control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the interview, broadcast on Sunday on CBS’s popular programme 60 Minutes, he said many voters had been unhappy with his administration’s controversial raids against immigrants. The raids also set off large protests in different parts of the United States.
He said he was hopeful that an agreement on immigration could be reached by working with the new Democratic-controlled Congress. Trump said the two sides would sit down together and work out a solution, and that he believed it could be done.
In the interview, Trump said that even if a deal on immigration is reached, people involved in crime will still be deported. But he said “good people” who have lived in the United States for a long time, work and pay their taxes regularly could be allowed to stay.
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