Paul Ryan Backtracks, Now Favors Amending Law that Lets Illegal Children Stay

After David Gregory asks if he thought we should deport the illegal kids, Ryan said, ‘Yes I do, otherwise the humanitarian crisis will continue’

GREGORY: "... Congress is about to leave, having achieved so very, very little. And on this issue of immigration, you voted to support a law that basically created a situation we have now, which is, those who come to the border from Central America have to be put into a process where they are evaluated before they can be instantly deported. Do you have a different view of how that should happen now? Do you think these children and others, tens of thousands of them, should be sent back home?"
RYAN: "Yes, I do. Otherwise the humanitarian crisis will continue. Otherwise families in countries far away, on the other side of Mexico, will be giving thousands of dollars to traffickers to take their children over the border, and the humanitarian crisis will get worse. So I do believe we need to amend this law, which never intended for this to happen, to make sure that you can treat people in noncontiguous countries just like we do  Mexicans and Canadians, so that we can stop this crisis. We intend to do that this coming week here in this session of Congress.
But the other point about Congress doing nothing, look no further than the United States Senate. We've passed over 300 bills in the House, bills aimed at job creation, fixing problems, that are just sitting in the Senate, going nowhere because the Senate has chosen basically to not legislate."

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