Immigration

Ryan: Americans ‘can’t trust’ Obama to ‘uphold the law’

By Pete Kasperowicz
Published November 4, 2015 12:58pm ET
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Ryan: Americans ‘can’t trust’ Obama to ‘uphold the law’
"He has tried to go around Congress by ordering his administration to create a new legal status for undocumented immigrants," Speaker Paul Ryan wrote of Presidnet Obama in an op-ed in USA Today. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) | Susan Walsh

House Speaker Paul Ryan made it crystal clear Wednesday that the Republican House will not take up major immigration legislation as long as President Obama is in office.

“And the reason is simple: The American people can’t trust him to uphold the law,” Ryan wrote in a short op-ed in USA Today.

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