GOP leaders urge Trump not to end program for ‘dreamers’

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in Congress on Friday urged President Trump not to terminate an Obama-era program that has allowed nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers” to live and work in the country without fear of deportation.

Ryan, R-Wis., said in a radio interview that it was up to Congress to determine the fate of the immigrants enrolled in Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which offers two-year work permits to those who have been in the country illegally since they were children.

Asked if Trump should follow through on campaign pledges to end DACA, Ryan told WCLO in his hometown of Janesville: “I actually don’t think he should do that.