They would rather state it another way even if they acknowledged the law: Obama cares. They don't care about the law. They care about appearances and I think we know they supported any executive order put in place by Obama regardless if it was clarification of policy under the law or changing the law itself.
I saw a video recently (an interview of Obama). In it, the interviewer started out by saying Obama was deporting close to 1,000 people per day. Obama did not object to this fact or stipulation. He knew it was true. Later Obama discussed the Dreamers's and it was for them that he made the policy changes as we know, citing limited resources to comply fully with the law. There was no mention of separating families or what they did with children at the point of apprehension wherever it may be. So it IMPLIED that he followed the law other than the Dreamer deferred action order. But did he? Because following the law in theory is ZERO TOLERANCE.
