President Obama, outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and the Center for American Progress all resisted selective enforcement of the law under former President George W. Bush. All three now support Obama’s executive action on immigration, which will selectively enforce immigration law.

On the campaign trail in 2008, Obama said, “What George Bush has been trying to do as part of his effort to accumulate more power in the presidency, is he’s been saying ‘Well, I can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don’t agree with this part or I don’t agree with that part, I’m going to choose to interpret it this way or that way.’ That’s not part of his power, but this is part of the whole theory of George Bush that he can make laws as he goes along. I disagree with that.”