Donald Trump admitted, in an interview with CBS, that his policy of mass deportations of immigrants was “very harsh,” just a few days after his party’s defeat in the midterm elections.
“I think that was very harsh,” the U.S. president told a CBS reporter who asked him about his immigration policy, according to excerpts from the interview circulating on social media.
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He did not specify, however, whether he intends to change his approach to this policy.
This apparent shift comes two days after he promoted his adviser Stephen Miller, a far-right figure who played a key role in the policy of mass deportations of immigrants, to the strategically important post of White House Chief of Staff.
During the midterm elections, in which the Democrats won by a landslide, Spanish-speaking voters who had helped re-elect Trump turned against him, disappointed by his unfulfilled promises of lower prices and the indiscriminate nature of the deportations, as perceived, by immigration authorities
In a lengthy post on X the day after the Republicans’ crushing defeat—which he attributed primarily to the war in Iran— Vice President Jay D. Vance, for his part, stated that he is “open to the idea of changing law enforcement practices” regarding the policy to combat undocumented immigration. He had proposed, among other things, “that we target more specifically, for example, companies that hire undocumented workers.”
Source: APE-MPE
