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GOP senator shocks with 'remarkable break from Trump': 'Maybe we're doing something wrong'

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Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, is urging the administration to pull back on its immigration sweeps. He says ICE is removing people who have been part of their communities for years. "Before you know it, you get people that get carried away in their job and whatever it may be, and all of a sudden, then you're dragging people away that have lived on your street corner for 15 years, and I don't know that we need to be doing that stuff," Justice told Politico on Tuesday. He then went a step further and said the administration should admit it has made mistakes. "To get better, the first thing you got to do is admit you're doing something wrong," Justice said. "And in this situation, with all that's going on and all the stuff, we probably got to step back from it and say, 'Maybe we're doing something wrong here or there,' and then adjust to that." Politico reporter Rachel Shin, who interviewed him, called the statement "a remarkable break from Trump ad