Trump Admits Immigration Deportation Policy Was 'Too Harsh'

US President Donald Trump admitted on Sunday in an interview with the "CBS" network that his policy based on mass deportations of immigrants was "too harsh," days after his camp suffered defeat in the midterm elections.

In response to a question posed by a journalist from the network regarding his immigration policy, Trump said: "I think it was too harsh," according to excerpts from the interview published on social media networks.

Despite this, the US president did not commit to making any changes to the existing immigration policy.

Two days prior, he appointed his advisor Stephen Miller, a figurehead of the far right and one of the main architects of the mass deportation policy for immigrants, as the new White House Chief of Staff.

During the midterm elections, voters of Latin American origin who contributed to Donald Trump's re-election turned against him after they did not see a decrease in prices as promised, and in light of deportation operations led by immigration agencies which were described as arbitrary.

In a very long message on the X platform the day after the severe defeat suffered by Republicans, Vice President JD Vance, who previously attributed the loss to the war on Iran, expressed his "openness to introducing modifications" to the anti-illegal immigration policy, suggesting for example focusing on "targeting companies that employ illegal workers (...)."