Trump backs away from hardline immigration policy after midterms blowout: ‘I think it was too tough’

President Trump admitted his hardline immigration policy went too far after the GOP’s sweeping losses in the midterm elections last week.

Trump said his administration’s rapid deportations turned off some Americans during a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday, following Republicans losing the Hispanic vote last Tuesday.

“I think it was too tough,” the president said of his deportation policy.

“For getting people out, I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out,” he said. “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.”

Latino voters who swung to the right in 2024 reversed course in Tuesday’s elections, shifting dramatically to the left. In battleground states with large Hispanic populations, like Texas, Democrats won governorships and Senate seats.

When it came to closing the southern border, however, Trump gave himself “an A+.”

“Nobody — in the last 17 months, just came out, zero people came in through our southern border, as opposed to 25 million people — 25 million people. They came in through caravans,” he said.

“Nobody ever saw anything like it.”