Posted on 11/04/2026 4:22:07 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
President Donald Trump told Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum Wednesday that he could work with Democrats on immigration following a midterm sweep that gave Democrats control of the House of Representatives and Senate.
Republicans lost the House and Senate as Democrats swept multiple races in the South and Midwest, including flipping open seats in Iowa, North Carolina and Texas while ousting incumbents in Ohio, Kansas and South Carolina. Trump drew hard lines regarding an “open border,” biological men playing women’s sports and child sex changes, but expressed optimism on working with Democrats on other issues, such as immigration
“We could work with them on immigration, I think. Immigration is a big deal. I’ve always felt we should be able to work on immigration,” Trump said.
Earlier, Trump highlighted his success in closing the border, which saw a massive surge of illegal immigrants during the Biden administration.
“A lot of people say what about immigration? You know, I closed the border. There were 25 million people coming into our country and killing a lot of people, killing a lot of people,” Trump told Baier and MacCallum. “A lot of bad ones coming in and they came out of jails and they came out of mental institutions, and they were drug dealers and they were murderers. I always say, 11,888. Think of it. 11,888 murders came into our country through an open border. Now, could I work with them on an open border? I don’t think so.”
Trump ran on controlling illegal immigration and securing the border from the start of his first presidential campaign, when he rode down the escalator at Trump Tower in New York City in June 2015.
Upon taking office for his second term, Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration, including designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) and the El Salvadoran prison gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations.
Democrats have been highly critical of Trum
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We are so screwed.
Your TDS is going to be your undoing. I hope you voted in TX.
Paging Joseph Robinette Biden…
No need to. The border is secure for 2 years at least. 2029 could be different-we’ll see.
Stop whining....Trump has been the best pro-borders, anti-illegals President of the past 50 years...
He’ll get the rats, and people like you, believing he’s going to give something then part of the deal will be something that completely makes sense the rats would never agree to- then the deal is off..and he can say “Well i tried, but they wouldn’t agree to common sense proposals”..
This is not George Bush or John McCain...
Oh, great……
If by posting exact quotes by Trump himself means I have TDS... then fine.
How about TFS? Trump Fatigue Syndrome.
The border is secured for the rest of the term the Dems can’t stop that. Trump saying he can “work” with democrats doesn’t mean he is going to and I doubt the Dems plan on doing anything besides meaningless investigations.
Its funny that the average Dem voter would benefit from a strong border and deporting illegals but they are so mentally broken that they go along with their political masters.
They’re not going to work with him on anything
Rope-a-doping.
How far will that take us when Hinojosa is ready to undo all the good Trump has done in Texas?
Meanwhile, the Democrats are talking about war crimes prosecutions for ICE agents.
Your boy Ted Cruz just said the same thing, he looks forward to and will work with the Democrats when they are willing to be reasonable.
Can Trump pardon them?
If I were an ICE agent I would get the Hell out of the US.
If I were an ICE agent I would get the Hell out of the US.
> Trump has been the best pro-borders, anti-illegals President of the past 50 years... <
Yep. In that, Trump has done the country a great service. But starting in 2027 the Democrats will control the power of the purse. They could deny funding for ICE in a spending bill. Then Trump could threaten a veto.
Then we’ll see who blinks first. It won’t necessarily be the Democrats.
And who’s in charge of the border?? Biden put no troops on the border- you think President Trump is going to take orders from this b!tch???
Ted has always been a squish.
He’s a good conservative, but hardly presidential material.
Dems wont do a damn thing for anyone except impeach impeach impeach that will be it..nothing more nothing less, they wont pass one damn bill they will be too busy trying to make Trump’s Administration life so damn miserable they will be begging to get out that is what the next 2 yrs will be like
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