‘We Got A Little Hiccup’ With Latino Voters Ahead Of Midterms, Mike Johnson Actually SaysSpeaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) says he thinks Republicans will do great in the midterm elections with Latino voters, despite that nagging reality that the Trump administration has been brutalizing immigrants, traumatizing children and families and even killing U.S. citizens amid its aggressive mass deportation actions.“We got a little hiccup" with Latino and Hispanic voters, Johnson said during a live-streamed interview from the GOP’s policy retreat in Doral, Florida. “Because some of the immigration enforcement was viewed to be overzealous."Some of the overzealous actions have included federal agents illegally breaking into people’s homes without warrants, dragging legal immigrants into the street in their underwear in subzero temperatures, hosing down peaceful protesters with tear gas, racially profiling people on the street, circling elementary schools, intimidating residents protecting immigrant neighbors, lying about the people they’re detaining, shipping children off to nightmarish detention facilities and fatally shooting at least two Americans, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.“Everybody can describe it differently,” Johnson said of the Trump administration’s campaign of terror against immigrants.He went on to say the “good news” is Republicans are “in a course-correction mode right now,” meaning they’re trying to soften their image on immigration enforcement. That’s the message they reportedly got Tuesday from White House deputy chief of staff James Blair at their party’s retreat, urging them to stop talking about “mass deportations.”“We calm down the immigration enforcement concern,” Johnson said, and Latino voters will “understand that our party is with them, cares about them, and this is the permanent home where they should be.”The majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration, and more than half have negative views of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, per a recent NBC News poll.See All UpdatesClose