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President Donald Trump is defending his administration’s ongoing ICE raids, saying its violent operations "haven't gone far enough."
During interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday (November 2), Trump said he was "okay" with how the agency has operated after recent videos showed ICE agents tackling a young mother, deploying tear gas in a Chicago neighborhood, and shamishing car windows.
“I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the… by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama,” Trump told interviewer Norah O’Donnell.
O’Donnell noted that illegal crossings at the southern border are at a 55-year low. She also pressed the president on reports that many deported individuals are not violent offenders.
“A lot of people that your administration has arrested and deported aren’t violent criminals — landscapers, nannies, construction workers,” O'Donnell said.
Trump pushed back against O'Donnell's comments, claiming those detained were “landscapers who are criminals.”
“I need landscapers and I need farmers more than anybody, okay. But we’ve apprehended tremendous numbers of bad people," he said.
During Sunday's interview, Trump maintained that the U.S. must enforce strict immigration laws.
“We have to start off with a policy, and the policy has to be: you came into the country illegally, you’re gonna go out,” Trump said.
Trump also repeated his assertion that “street-wise” foreign governments are “sending bad people out and putting them into our country.” When asked when he would consider his immigration crackdown a success, Trump said, “It takes a long time."
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