Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says Democrats contacted him about immigration legislation and Trump encouraged him to work with them. He says he and Trump have not discussed changing enforcement policy.
US President Donald Trump encouraged Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to work with Democrats on immigration legislation, Mullin said on 9 November 2026. He said they had not discussed changing immigration enforcement policy. The opening concerns possible legislation, not new permission for undocumented residents to stay.
Democrats had contacted him about cooperation in the new Congress, he told reporters. In remarks carried by Fox News, he said they could begin working together and meet later. He also rejected amnesty.
The discussions follow midterm elections in which Democrats won both chambers of Congress. Republicans retain control until the newly elected lawmakers take office on 3 January 2027.
In a television interview aired 8 November, Trump suggested negotiating an arrangement allowing some undocumented residents who had lived in the US for 10 or 15 years to remain. He proposed continuing to deport people convicted of serious crimes.
Trump said his deportation policy might have been too tough and might have contributed to Republican election losses. He said the administration had also removed employed people whose only violation, in his account, was entering the country illegally.
The Guardian said immigration raids at workplaces, homes and public spaces had caught people with no criminal records since Trump returned to office.
Mullin suggested Congress could consider permanent legal status for recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The program provides temporary protection from deportation and work authorization to eligible immigrants brought into the US illegally as children. His department has stressed that DACA does not itself confer legal status.
Nikos Christodoulides and Tufan Erhurman agreed to open the crossings simultaneously and to meet UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the coming weeks.
The White House declined to clarify the possible deal’s terms when Fox News asked on 9 November. Trump’s suggestion remains a matter for negotiation, and Mullin said Congress would have to decide any DACA reform.
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