Sixteen months ago during a nationally televised town hall, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan assured a concerned Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient that she had nothing to worry about. "I want you to know that DACA has helped me,” she told him last January. Her daughter, wide-eyed, stood next to her. “Do you think that I should be deported?"

"No," he replied. "First of all, I can see that you love your daughter and you are a nice person who has a great future ahead of you, and I hope your future is here.” He doesn’t. Ryan’s effort to sabotage a discharge petition from a small group of moderate House Republicans worked, killing a chance to vote on the bipartisan DREAM Act:

After a series of last-minute negotiations Tuesday, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) cut an immigration deal with his conservative wing to bring a vote next week on two Republican bills designed to bolster enforcement and provide legal protections to so-called Dreamers.

But as The Washington Post’s Seung Min Kim tweets, one of the two proposals from this so-called deal is so far “text-less,” while the second is the dreaded Goodlatte bill—side-eyed by plenty of Republicans—that slashes legal immigration, ramps up enforcement and border militarization, and offers DACA recipients no path to citizenship. No wonder hate groups seemed to endorse it.

“The Speaker is offering vague promises to bring a bill to the Floor that was crafted without Democratic input and to permit the House to vote only on that and on legislation offered by the extreme wing in his party that will not pass,” said Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer. “This is a pretend attempt to appear that he is addressing the DACA crisis when he is not.”