President Donald Trump clarified his immigration policy on Monday, telling reporters during a press conference at the White House that it remains unchanged and there will be no amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Alongside Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, Trump said that his policy of targeting illegal immigrants for deportation will continue, including those who might not have violent criminal records.

“Joe Biden allowed 25 million people to come in—of that, 11,888 murderers,” Trump said.

“We want to get the worst of the worst, and then we’ll see what happens, but they came in illegally—many of them have good jobs now, they’re productive, some are even paying taxes, and we’re seeing what’s going to happen. There won’t be amnesty.”

The president’s comments followed his interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which aired Nov. 8, when he said he believed Republicans and Democrats could formulate a deal together for a legal pathway for certain illegal immigrants.

“In other words, get the killers out, get all the rough ones out, get the drug dealers out, but let the people that are here—and in some cases here for 10 and 15 years—work a deal for them,” Trump said in that interview.

But during the Monday press conference, Trump pushed back on a question about his comment during the “60 Minutes” interview, when he said his deportation policy “might be too tough.”

The president was asked whether the architect of that policy, newly appointed Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, was aware there might be changes coming in light of Trump’s comments.

“No, no. We have a very strong deportation policy,” Trump clarified, later saying, “There won’t be amnesty. Somebody suggested, ‘Will there be amnesty?’ No.”

The president reiterated again that his immigration and deportation policy will not change, with a continued focus on apprehending the “worst of the worst.”

Questions about how Trump will direct the federal government after Democrats’ sweeping victories in the 2026 midterm elections have taken center stage.

Republicans lost their slim majorities in both chambers of Congress on Nov. 3.

Trump congratulated the Democratic Party for their victories during interviews with media outlets. The White House also released a statement the following day about the policies that Democrats may try to implement now that they have control of the House and Senate, led by the “radical left.”

“In the final two years of his presidency, Democrats will try—and fail—to reverse everything President Trump has done,” the statement reads.

Democratic lawmakers will attempt to reopen the border, flood the country with illegal immigrants, and shield criminal illegal immigrants, among other things, it stated.

During Trump’s “60 Minutes” interview, he gave himself an “A plus” for closing the border but acknowledged voters’ disapproval of some of his immigration policies.

“I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out,” Trump said. “But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs that created one violation or breaking of the law—that was that they came into the country illegally.”

The president noted that a faction of the country believes a tough deportation policy is necessary while others find it too harsh, which he said hurt the GOP’s performance in the midterms.

Americans remain divided on the issue, Trump told “60 Minutes” correspondent Ross Douthat.

“There’s a group of people, I would say on the pretty far right, that would like everybody taken out,” Trump said. “There are a lot of those people.”

Voters also have mixed opinions on deportation policies, he said, including people who want violent criminals removed from the country, while believing law-abiding and tax-paying foreign nationals could be offered an amnesty deal to stay in the country.

The president at the White House on Monday made clear illegal immigrants will not be allowed to stay in the United States, although law enforcement will focus on “the worst of the worst.” He then accused countries from around the world of emptying their prisons and mental institutions into the United States while President Joe Biden was in office.

“What Biden did to this country should never, ever be forgotten,” Trump said. “And I hope the Democrats will not try and allow that to happen.”