She embraced repeatedly the view that the Obama administration's adoption of DACA was unconstitutional and it was up to Congress to take responsibility for the matter.
She was willing to say when people's DACA authorizations run out the Dreamers will not suddenly move to the top of the deportation list, a position occupied by criminals and dangerous folks.
But she would offer no guarantees or promises on behalf of the president that those folks would not be deported.
That is, when asked, she refused to promise on the president's behalf that he would not enforce the law against this particular class of people.
A position of constitutional rectitude (Article II, section 3: the president has a constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed") that is, in connection with immigration law, surprisingly annoying to most Democrats and many Republicans.
A side note.
Paul Ryan, who just the other day urged the president not to cancel DACA, himself has voted against it in the past, notes MSNBC.
And somebody needs to remind folks who defend O's order by pointing out that Congress repeatedly refused to OK DACA ("Oh, but Congress is broken!") that when the congress refuses to make laws the president wants he doesn't get to just make them himself.
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