Trump tells 60 Minutes that deportation policy was ‘too tough’

President makes unusual acknowledgement that one of the defining policies of his second administration had become a political liability

Donald Trump has admitted that his deportation policy was too tough" and has offered to strike an immigration deal with Democrats in a concession following the Republicans' disastrous defeat in the midterm elections.

In an interview on the CBS network's 60 Minutes broadcast on Sunday, the president acknowledged that the aggressive crackdown had hurt him politically and said he was open to an arrangement to allow some undocumented immigrants to remain in the US.