President Trump told "60 Minutes" that his deportation policy "might be too tough" and that he would "love to do something on immigration" with the Democrats about to take over Congress, in an interview taped Friday, his first since the midterms. An hour after the conversation, he replaced chief of staff Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy.
60 MINUTES REPORT: Ross Douthat interviews President Trump in his first sit-down interview since the 2026 midterm elections.
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Asked by CBS correspondent Ross Douthat whether the crackdown hurt Republicans in the midterms, Trump answered: "I think it both helped and hurt. 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 created one violation for breaking of the law. And that was that they came into the country illegally."
Douthat then asked: "So you think your deportation policy went too far?" "It was too tough," Trump said. "I think it might be too tough. Yeah."
He said the deal he has in mind with Democrats is "something that's actually doable": "some kind of legal status for
