In an interview with 60 Minutes, Trump says that his deportation of illegal immigrants was the fulfilment of a key promise to voters, but that deporting illegal immigrants who were in work and paying tax went too far. Such stories spread within the Latin American community and damaged the Republicans in the mid-term elections. Trump is self-critical.
But not regarding the deportation of criminal illegal immigrants, which was the group ICE began with.
In the extended interview which has been posted online, Trump added: ‘we had 25 million people come in through Biden over a four-year period, and many of those people were– as you know, they were from prisons, they were drug dealers, they were from mental institutions.’
Trump did, however, admit that many illegal immigrants in the country were ‘good’ people, which is likely why his policies met with resistance.
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. Now, there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out. And there’s a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they’re good people working in a landscaping company, or workin’ in a hotel, or doing something, right? And in some cases, paying taxes. And there’s a large group of people [who] think that they should be allowed to stay.
On *Nyhetsmorgen*, it was presented as though Trump regretted that the deportations had gone too far in general. The clarifications were not included.
