Trump says his deportation policy was ‘too tough’
In an interview to ‘CBS News’, the US president said he thinks his immigration measures ‘helped and hurt’ him in the midterm elections.
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United States President Donald Trump said in an interview to CBS News on Sunday that his mass deportation of allegedly undocumented immigrants was “too tough”.
The US has undertaken a broad immigration crackdown during Trump’s second term, which began in January 2025.
When asked if his immigration policies may have hurt his Republican party in the midterm elections held on November 3, Trump said they may have partly contributed to the loss.
“I think it both helped and hurt,” he said. “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 – that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally.”
Before the polls, the Republican party had a 53:47 majority in the 100-member Senate. It had a slim 219:214 majority in the 435-member House of Representatives.
After the polls, the Democrats hold 54 seats in the Upper House of Congress and the Republicans 44. The Democrats won 254 seats and the Republicans 162 in the Lower House. A party needs 218 seats for a majority. Nineteen seats were yet to be called.
The elections were viewed as a...
