As 15 states and Washington DC filed suit against Donald Trump over the rescinding of protection for young people brought to the US illegally as children, House speaker Paul Ryan said such “Dreamers” should “rest easy” as Congress tackles the necessary immigration reform.Nearly 800,000 “Dreamers” are currently shielded from deportation under an Obama-era directive, most of them living in California and Texas. The lawsuit, filed in New York, was announced by Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson, who said Trump’s act had created “a dark time for our country”. On Tuesday, Barack Obama called Trump’s move “wrong”, “self-defeating” and “cruel”. With DC, the other states in the lawsuit are New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia.

Ryan was speaking a day after Trump challenged lawmakers to “fix” the issue before the policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), expires in March. In a press conference, Ryan said the president was “right in his decision” to cancel the program because Obama had “overstepped his constitutional bounds” by enacting the policy in 2012.(theguardian)…[+]