{"id":12864,"date":"2026-11-09T06:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/trump-admits-mass-deportation-policy-too-tough\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T06:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:15:43","slug":"trump-admits-mass-deportation-policy-too-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/trump-admits-mass-deportation-policy-too-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admits mass deportation policy too tough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"60\">\n<p>United States President Donald Trump said that his mass deportation of undocumented immigrants was \u201ctoo tough,\u201d according to an excerpt of an interview with CBS aired on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the policy ultimately \u201churt\u201d him and also blamed Republicans\u2019 midterm losses in part on \u201cbad messaging.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Asked about his deportation policy, Trump told CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes\u201d: \u201cI think it was too tough\u2026I think it might be too tough.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The excerpt was published by CBS on X ahead of a broadcast of the interview on network TV later Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It was recorded after the Republican Party\u2019s heavy loss in midterm elections on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>While Trump has won some domestic support for securing the US southern border, his administration\u2019s aggressive push to deport millions of undocumented migrants has drawn widespread criticism.\n<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump on Friday appointed the architect of that hardline policy, Stephen Miller, as his chief of staff on Friday, signaling a bare-knuckle fightback after the Republican election loss.<\/p>\n<p>Miller has been synonymous with scenes of masked immigration agents committing violence after he backed federal agents who shot and killed two Americans early this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#295d414c4c4d405d465b69595c474a41474e074a4644\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"7d09151818191409120f3d0d08131e15131a531e1210\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Donald Trump said that his mass deportation of undocumented immigrants was \u201ctoo tough,\u201d according to an excerpt of an interview with CBS aired on Sunday. He stated&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}