Hundreds of migrants have started their trek from Mexico to the U.S. because they see the writing on the wall.
In a Sunday 60 Minutes interview with host Ross Douthat, President Donald Trump signaled that he’d be willing to make a deal with Congress on giving amnesty to illegal immigrants. He told Douthat that he deserves an “A+ for closing up the border,” but then claimed that the rest of his immigration policies hurt Republicans in the midterms.
“For getting people out, 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,” Trump said.
“When you go into a hotel and you say, ‘Let me see your pass,’ 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 lotta good things, great job, and all of a sudden, they’re being taken outta the country, it’s tough. It’s a tough thing,” Trump continued.
He then told Douthat that he would be willing to make a “deal” with Democrats that sounded an awful lot like granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigran...