ABC News interviewed Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who empathized with President Obama's compassion for undocumented immigrants, but said compassion can't trump the Constitution.

“The president is being a dictator by issuing laws in contradiction of his power under the United States Constitution," Abbott told ABC News. "What the president did here was to trample the rule of law."

The Obama administration is currently appealing a federal lawsuit filed by Abbott while he was the Texas attorney general that stopped the president's executive action to protect millions of illegals from deportation. Abbott admitted to having no solution of his own to this problem, but said the reason for the lawsuit was to remind the president that it is his job to find a solution with Congress.

"I've got compassion for everyone," Abbott said. "But in the Constitution, it requires the president to follow the law. There's no article or Bill of Rights in the Constitution that says compassion allows the president to circumvent the rules of the Constitution. And that's exactly what the president has done."