Deportations and a Possible Immigration Deal After the Midterms

You came out after the midterms, you congratulated the Democrats. Correct.

You said that you were open to working with them. True.

What is one thing you would like to work with a Democratic majority on?

I'd love to do something on immigration.

What? Because, well, so- Do you think immigration hurt you in the midterms?

I think, uh, I think- Do you think the crackdown hurt you?

I think it both helped and hurt. I think I got an A+ for closing up the border.

I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out, 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 working in a hotel or doing something, right?

And in some cases, paying taxes. Mm-hmm.

And there's a large group of people think that they should be allowed to stay.

So you think your deportation policy went too far?

I think it was too tough. It was too tough.

I think it might be too tough, yeah. What would happen- And I think ultimate- What does the deal look like with the Democrats? I think ultimately that hurt me.

Well, the deal would be we would work something out, and I think it's something, I think that's something that's actually doable.

Doable to create- When you go into- ... some kind of, some kind of legal status- Yeah. Well, when you go into- ... for the landscapers and the- Yeah.

When you go into a hotel and you have a woman that's worked there as a, you know, as a maid, as a cleaner, as a this, as a that, as a waitress, a lot of good things, great jobs, and all of a sudden they're being taken out of the country, it's tough. It's a tough thing.

But there's a group of people that I would say on the sort of pretty far right that would like everybody taken out.

Do some of them- Then there's a group of people on the- Do, do any of those people work in your administration? Yes.

Are they in the building with us right now? Yeah. No, no.

Well, there are a lot of those people. Yeah.

Then there's also people that are more modified on that.

In other words, get the killers out, get all the, the rough ones out, get the drug dealers out, but let the people that are here, and in some cases here for 10 and 15 years, work a deal for them.

You think the Democratic Party right now has people in it who would be interested in this kind of deal? I think so, yeah.

People have already called me.