“This is something that Congress has to fix,” the speaker said.
On Wednesday, he again said Congress needs to step in, but this time, he did not second-guess the president.
Mr. Trump, he said, “was right in his decision” to give Congress the time to find a compromise that could protect the 800,000 young adults brought to the United States illegally as children who qualify for the program, also known as DACA.
But Mr. Ryan indicated that any legislative deal for the so-called dreamers would have to include measures more palatable to conservatives. He hinted that a legislative effort to help DACA recipients would need to be linked to efforts to increase border security.
