Posted on 09/01/2017 9:48:12 AM PDT by Enlightened1
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday gave a major boost to legislative efforts to preserve protections for young undocumented immigrants -- and urged President Donald Trump to not tear up the program.
Responding to a question about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, on his hometown radio station WCLO in Janesville, Wisconsin, Ryan said Congress was working on a legislative fix to preserve the program. "I actually don't think he should do that," Ryan said of Trump's consideration of terminating the program. "I believe that this is something that Congress has to fix."
Ryan's statement offers the most public support by anyone in the Republican congressional leadership for some sort of legislation to protect the "Dreamers" under DACA. The popular Obama administration program -- which gives protections from deportation to undocumented immigrants that were brought to the US as children to work or study -- has long been targeted by Republicans as an overreach of executive authority. Nevertheless, a number of moderate Republicans alongside Democrats support the program and have offered legislation that would make the protections permanent. Ryan, who worked on comprehensive immigration reform before he became part of House leadership, endorsed that approach in the interview. "President (Barack) Obama does not have the authority to do what he did ... we've made that very clear," Ryan said in the radio interview. "Having said all of that, there are people who are in limbo. These are kids who know no other country, who were brought here by their parents and don't know another home. And so I really do believe there that there needs to be a legislative solution."
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Ryan, resign now!
...for the good of the nation.
Boom!
Exactly!
Scan we scrap Ryan as speaker instead?
So far, Ryan fought against replacing Obama care, he’s fighting against the wall and now he’s opposing Trump on this. He’s against everything we voted in Trump to accomplish and everything he said he was for when campaigning. Complete swamp creature.
Right on... Right on...
Ryan is a Democrat with a “R” by his name.
Funny how quick Ryan reacts to protect the liberal agenda to harvest the votes of illegal immigrants while key elements of Trump’s agenda to benefit Americans gets no attention.
These people make me ill.
Ryan, do you have a deal in mind?
Of course you are always free to propose the House pass a law. Can you get with the program?
He won the presidency, you should get over this and start becoming an effective leader. And so far, you have shown us nothing.
Blowmeryan.
How dare he make demands on the American people and the President. Cut my taxes now, repeal obamacare now, then sh*t can yourself to the curb or it will be done for you.
>>”I believe that this is something that Congress has to fix.”
Yes it WAS, back when Obama was president and passing laws by executive fiat.
THIS was the reason I could not vote for Romney/Ryan in 2012. I saw what a complete traitor he was.
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Ryan called into his local radio station? To say this???
This is a choreographed FU at POTUS. Ryan is scum.
Trump has asked Ryan for many things, also...and Ryan not only hasn’t delivered, he’s actively sabotaged those things.
So who the Hell does Ryan think that he is? Was he elected President with over 60 million votes? Yeah, didn’t think so.
Shut up and go away, Lyin’ Ryan.
Looming over all of this is the intention of Texas and several other states to proceed with a challenge to Obama’s DACA executive order in court if Trump doesn’t rescind it by September 5.
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