WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama insisted on Tuesday that a month-long delay on immigration work during the August recess won’t kill momentum for reform, and could even help win over House Republicans wary of getting involved.
“If in fact the House recognized the smart thing, the right thing to do, was to go ahead and send the Senate bill to the floor for a vote, I think it would pass tomorrow,” Obama told Norma Garcia of Telemundo Dallas in a series of four interviews with Spanish-language news stations at the White House.
“But the House Republicans I think still have to process this issue and and discuss it further, and hopefully, I think, still hear from constituents, from businesses to labor, to evangelical Christians who all are supporting immigration reform,” he continued. “All this means that we may have to go through several more weeks of work before we actually pass the bill. So it probably will — hopefully happen in the fall.”
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