Trump says "tough" US deportation policy may explain midterm losses

In an unexpected about-turn, US President Donald Trump has said his administration's deportation policy was too tough. I just know he's a fine man. In an interview aired on Sunday, Trump blamed his Republican Party's midterm wipeout, in part on the aggressive immigration crackdown. Trump's second term has been marked by major operations in multiple cities, where agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, pursued and violently arrested people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally. A key feature of the deportation policy has been removing people to countries other than their own. Some 25,000 non-citizens deported from the U.S. have been transferred to 30 countries around the world. Now Trump says he's open to working with Democrats in the new Congress on some kind of immigration deal. But soon after taping the interview, he named the architect of his immigration policy, Stephen Miller, to White House chief of staff.