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Why Republicans are Changing Course on Immigration

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What did Speaker Mike Johnson mean when he talked about a “course correction” in the Trump administration’s deportation approach? Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs analyzes how the message around deportation is changing.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Gilad Thaler, Nikolay Nikolov, June Kim and Luke Piotrowski
March 16, 2026
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