President Donald Trump said on Sunday his immigration policy hurt the Republican Party in the midterm elections, and pressed Democrats to make a bipartisan deal with the White House that could offer legal status to “good” illegal immigrants.

Trump stood by his administration’s effort to seal the border and target violent illegal immigrants over the course of his second term during a CBS 60 Minutes interview. But he said that deporting people with “good jobs” in the hospitality industry and other blue-collar service sectors who had only committed the crime of crossing illegally hurt the GOP in last week’s elections.

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