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Watch DREAMers ask Paul Ryan about his vote to deport them

John Gress

Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) has been an immigration reform supporter in the past, but he’s joined the GOP push again the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. Watch what happens when a few of the immigration who DACA is protecting from deportation ask the congressman to explain to them why or whether he thinks they should be kicked out of the country:

Even Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) has had trouble telling DREAMers to their face that they should be deported. Ryan, by contrast, has been an immigration reform supporter in the past, though he’s now gotten on board with the party line.

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