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Ariana Baio

Trump ally urges administration to ‘step back’ and rethink immigration agenda

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Senator Jim Justice, a Republican from West Virginia, in the Senate Subway of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on 17 June 2026. Photograph: Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A close political ally of Donald Trump has broken from the administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda and recommended it “step back” to evaluate what it could do better.

“To get better, the first thing you got to do is admit you’re doing something wrong,” Jim Justice, a Republican senator of West Virginia, told Politico. “And in this situation, with all that’s going on and all the stuff, we probably got to step back from it and say: ‘Maybe we’re doing something wrong here or there,’ and then adjust to that.”

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