Fox News reports that some Senate Republicans are open to revisiting immigration policy after President Trump floated a possible deal with Democrats on long-term immigrants. The one thing they will not agree to is amnesty. Fox reports the senators are willing to open up the immigration debate after the party's sweeping midterm losses, but they drew a hard line on that point.

Trump opened the door during an interview with 60 Minutes that aired over the weekend, according to Fox. He said his administration's deportation and enforcement policies might be too tough, and that the government should remove killers, rapists and drug dealers but work out a deal for people who have been here 10 or 15 years.

Sen. Jim Banks of Indiana told Fox News Digital he trusts the President to do what is right, but that amnesty is off the table and he will never go for it. Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who is retiring at the end of the year, told Fox he texted Trump as early as March to say it was the perfect time to codify the measures that sealed the border and pursue merit-based reform. Tillis said the base and the President are both fine with that kind of reform.

Fox reports that Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma is expected to become the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee next year. Lankford negotiated a bipartisan border deal before the 2024 election that collapsed after Trump criticized it and Senate Republicans withdrew support. Fox also reports that many Republicans agree the enforcement approach under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should not return.