Trump says immigration policy ‘might be too tough’ Trump says immigration policy ‘might be too tough’ 0:55 President Donald Trump admitted his sweeping deportation policy was “too tough” and said it ultimately “hurt” him in the midterm elections. “It was too difficult. I think it might be too difficult, yes,” Trump said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes.” “In the end, that hurt me.” The president recorded the interview Friday just hours before it was announced that Stephen Miller, the former Trump aide with a hardline immigration agenda, would replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff. Trump added that “a large part” of the country believes that immigrants who may have entered the US illegally but have worked in the country for years should be able to stay, and indicated that there may be a deal with Democrats on immigration. “When you walk into a hotel and you have a woman who has worked there as, you know, as a maid, as a cleaner, as this, as that, as a waitress, a lot of good things, great jobs, and all of a sudden they get kicked out of the country, it’s difficult. It’s a difficult thing,” Trump said. “But there is a group of people who I would say are far-right who would like to see everyone eliminated.” Asked if anyone in his administration was in the group holding that view, Trump said, “There are a lot of those people.” “Then there are also people who are more modified in that sense. In other words, take out the murderers, take out all the toughs, take out the drug dealers, but let the people who are here, and in some cases here for 10 or 15 years, come to an agreement for them,” he said.
