Why Republicans are Changing Course on Immigration

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