Shortly after the defeat of the Republicans in the mid-term elections, the American president recognized excesses in his migration policy, without however announcing any concrete changes. A distancing which comes after he has just entrusted a strategic position to Stephen Miller, the architect of mass expulsions.

Published on: 09/11/2026 - 09:13

A rare mea cupla coming from Donald Trump. The President of the United States admitted on Sunday, November 8, in an interview with CBS, that his policy of mass expulsions of immigrants had been "too harsh", a few days after his camp's debacle during the midterms.

“I think she was too harsh,” the American president responded to a CBS journalist who asked him about his immigration policy, according to excerpts of the interview posted on social networks. However, he did not specify whether he intended to change his approach in this area.

Conflicting signals

However, this apparent inflection comes two days after he promoted his advisor Stephen Miller, a representative of the hard right who played a key role in the policy of mass expulsions of immigrants, to the strategic position of chief of staff at the White House.

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During the mid-term elections, largely won on Tuesday by the Democrats, Hispanic voters who had contributed to the re-election of Donald Trump turned against him, disappointed by his unfulfilled promises of lower prices and the considered indiscriminate nature of the expulsions carried out by the immigration police.

“Target businesses more,” says J.D. Vance

In a very long message posted on

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He notably proposed to "target more, for example, companies which hire workers in an irregular situation".

With AFP

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