Paul Ryan Doesn't Want Kids Split From Their Parents, But He Won't Blame Trump For It
Donald Trump’s policies have separated more than 1,000 immigrant children from their parents at the border. But according to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), it’s not Trump’s fault.
“This is because of a court ruling,” Ryan said Thursday during a press conference. He went on to repeat the claim three times.
The speaker said he was not comfortable with children being taken from their parents at the border. While he condemned the result, he brushed off Trump’s role in the policy his administration instituted, instead blaming it on a 1997 court settlement that no other president has interpreted to necessitate splitting up families en masse.
Ryan said that the solution is a legislative change to address the court decision, which a spokeswoman confirmed was a reference to the 1997 Flores settlement, which bars the government from detaining children for long periods, including with their parents. He didn’t get into details on what that would mean. But the proposal pushed by the White House isn’t to let kids live outside detention rather than split them from their parents: It’s to keep them all locked up together, potentially for months or even years.
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Guess you need one of these Paul.
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