Immigration

Trump's Immigration Indecision

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Liz Wolfe | 11.9.2026 9:30 AM

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Reflective Trump: In an interview with Ross Douthat at 60 Minutes, President Donald Trump appeared genuinely interested in working out some sort of immigration deal with the new incoming Democratic Congress, and willing to blame Republicans' midterm losses—to some degree—on his administration's aggressive immigration blunders.

"Do you think the crackdown hurt you?" asked Douthat.

"I think it both helped and hurt," responded the president. "I think I got an A for closing up the border, because we had 25 million people come in through Biden over a four-year period, and many of those people were— as you know, they were from prisons, they were drug dealers, they were from mental institutions. They were from all over the world, not just South America….You had 11,888 murderers, most of whom, more than half of whom, committed more than one murder. They were allowed into our country. We've gotten most of 'em out….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. Now, there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out. And there's a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they're good people working in a landscaping company, or workin' in a hotel, or doing something, right? And in some cases, paying taxes."

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