President’s admission appears at odds with the elevation of immigration hardliner

Trump admits deportation policy was ‘too tough’ despite Miller promotion

Sign up for US Breaking News email Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump said he thinks his administration was too aggressive on deportations and that he was open to an arrangement to allow some undocumented immigrants to remain in the US. I think it might be too tough, yeah. And a lot of people would say that it’s great. But a …

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    Pretty funny this comes out like a week after a Wisconsin State Patrol was picked up by ICE after it was determined he’s a south African refugee without legal status.

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    Trump was asked by the 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat whether his deportation policy had gone too far. “I think it was too tough,” he said. “I think it might be too tough, yeah. And a lot of people would say that it’s great. But a lot of people think it’s too tough.”

    The president claimed that his policy “both helped and hurt”, since people gave him an “A+ for closing up the border” and “very high marks for getting the bad ones out”. But he admitted: “I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally.”

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    The Great White Worm has ascended!!!

    (“I’m a grifter, I’m a grafter, I’m a body snatcher…” —The Stephen Miller Band)

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    The DNC is soft as baby shit and will 100% just allow him and his grifters to drift back to normalcy. Especially with someone like Jeffries potentially being the mouthpiece.

    They’ll go and get some low hanging fruit as collateral and declare it a victory. They can’t shake the boat too much or they don’t get their kickbacks.