The speculation has been building since Trump's interview over the weekend with 60 Minutes.
He told the CBS news program that he thinks his administration was too aggressive on deportation and that he thinks he can work with Democrats in the new Congress on some kind of immigration deal.
Trump did not fully walk back his policy, saying he gets an A-plus for closing the border and high marks for getting the "bad ones" out of the country. However, he turned sympathetic for those who come into the country illegally but have good jobs, with some even paying taxes.
"I think it might be too tough, yeah. And a lot of people would say that it's great, but a lot of people think it's too tough. I think, ultimately, that hurt me," Trump said.
Furthermore, he thinks it's doable to create some kind of legal status for illegal aliens who come in and work, for example, as landscapers and waitresses.
Responding to this on American Family Radio (AFR)'s "Jenna Ellis in the Morning" program, commentator Steve Deace of Blaze Media issued a sharp warning about what cutting a deal with Democrats on immigration would mean for the Republican coalition.
"So that clip on immigration there, I'm going to make a little prediction to you. How that plays out...you and I sit down in two years, and we're going to go back and look at that clip, and that's going to tell us whether we won in '28 or not," Deace states.
He said this is how.
"Because if he's serious about making a deal, that will split his base. We will not recover. The fundamental issue of the Republican base is immigration — the loss of a heritage, the loss of a culture," Deace states.
As for working with the Democrats, Trump agreed that he could work easily with them, without insulting them, if it came to securing this kind of deal.
