Trump Says He’d Like to Work with Democrats on Immigration, Admits Immigration Policy Was ‘Too Tough’

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TRUMP: "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 created one violation of breaking of the law. That is that they came into the country illegally. Now, there’s 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 are good people working in a landscaping company or working in a hotel or doing something, right, and in some cases paying taxes, and there’s a large group of people think that they should be allowed to stay -- "
DOUTHAT: "So you think your deportation policy went too far?"
TRUMP: "It was too tough."
DOUTHAT: "It was too tough?"
TRUMP: "I think it might be too tough. Yeah. I think ultimately that hurt me."