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The new Speaker of the House of Representatives has told members of his party that he will not attempt to advance any immigration reform effort while President Barack Obama is still in the Oval Office.

According to the National Review, Rep. Paul Ryan a Wisconsin Republican whom House Republicans confirmed Thursday to be the chambers next speaker, replacing Rep. John Boehner of Ohio made his immigration-reform vow by signing off on a letter written by Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama seeking his pledge not to bring immigration up while Obama is president.

The letter referred to a conversation that Ryan had with the House Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction that is vehemently opposed to any effort to give undocumented immigrants legal status.

The letter, which the National Review said it had obtained an exclusive copy of, confirmed a promise that Ryan was said to have made to the caucus in a private meeting last week when he was assessing how much support he would have if he ran for the speakership.

Brooks expressed plans to enter the letter and Ryans agreement with its contents in the Congressional Record.

The Alabama representative said that if Ryan confirmed his promise not to bring up immigration until at least 2017 and if, even then, he would do so only if a majority of his party supported it, Brooks would endorse Ryans candidacy for speaker.

I need your assurance that you will not use the speakers position to advance your immigration policies ... because there is a huge gap between your immigration position and the wishes of the American citizens I represent, Brooks wrote. Your words yesterday constitute the needed assurance.

If my portrayal of your words errs in any respect, please deliver to me ... a written communication correcting my errors, the letter went on.

The National Review said that Ryan confirmed his agreement with the letter in an interview with the publication.

I have long and publicly been opposed to the Gang of Eight bill, and there will be no comprehensive immigration reform under this president, the publication quoted Ryan as saying.

The so-called Gang of Eight bill was a bipartisan Senate resolution that passed in 2013 but stalled in the House, that called for comprehensive immigration reform that would have, among other things, tightened border security and provided a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants who met a strict set of criteria.

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U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, on his first full day asthe head of the people's chamber Friday, told reporters that he won't consider bringing any comprehensive immigration reform bills to the floor while President Barack Obama is in office. The new Republican speaker said the idea of bringing up such legislation under Obama is "ridiculous," according to the Washington Examiner.

This line isn't completely new for Ryan, whose rise to speakerhinged on his willingness to prevent reforms from makingit to the House floor. In a closed-door meeting with House Freedom Caucus members -- a group of about 40 ultra-conservative Republican lawmakers who played an important part in pushing former Speaker John Boehner to retire -- before his election, the Wisconsin native promised he would not bring up reforms under Obama's presidency.

"I have long and publicly been opposed to the so-called gang of eightbill, and there will be no comprehensive immigration reform under this president," Ryan told the National Review earlier this week.

The gang of eight bill was an immigration reform proposal that was agreed to by a bipartisan group of eight senators in 2013. The legislation failed in the House.

The White House said Thursday after Ryan was elected that the Obama administration shared a deep level of disappointment that there would be no immigration reform before the Democratic president leaves office in January 2017.

Obama has deported record numbers of undocumented immigrants since he took office in what was widely considereda sign of goodwill toward Republicans so that he could later work with them to pass comprehensive immigration reforms.

Instead, the only immigration reforms that he has been able to make while president have been through the power of his executive office. He has granted temporary legal status to millions of younger undocumented immigrants, and attempted to grant that status to their parents;however, that effort has been tied up in federal courts.

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Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. speaks in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. Republicans rallied behind Ryan to elect him the House's 54th speaker on Thursday as a splintered GOP turned to the youthful but battle-tested lawmaker to mend its self-inflicted wounds and craft a conservative message to woo voters in next year's elections.

Its been widely reported that newly-elected Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) wont bring immigration reform legislation to the House floor while President Obama remains in office. Whats been mentioned less is what will happen when Obama is gone.

According to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ryan promised the Houses ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus in a closed-door meeting that he wont bring comprehensive immigration reform to the floor even after a new president is elected that is, unless he can ensure that the majority of House Republicans will vote for it. And Jordan pointed out that its very unlikely that the majority of Republicans will ever support anything comprehensive.

We got assurances on the immigration issue and this comprehensive Gang-of-Eight-type of plan that thats not going to happen, Jordan told radio host Laura Ingraham on Friday. And frankly, in the next Congress, theres no way something like that moves unless the majority of our conference supports it. And the majority of our conference, as you rightly point out, doesnt support that.

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Ryans promise to the Freedom Caucus came in the form of a letter, first obtained by the conservative National Review. That letter also stated that he would not allow any immigration bill to reach the floor for a vote unless a majority of GOP members support it.

Ryans office did not return ThinkProgress request for comment.

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Two Central Valley Republicans say that newly selected House Speaker Paul Ryans decision not to focus on immigration reform while Barack Obama is president wont stop them from trying.

Reps. Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) and David Valadao (R-Hanford) have been among the most outspoken members of their party pushing for comprehensive immigration overhaul.

Its time to have a full debate, Denham said Friday.

But the speaker has pledged to hold off an olive branch to members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, who have balked at his past support for measures to provide a path to citizenship and increase the number of foreign-worker visas.

In a private meeting with the caucusbeforehis election, Ryan secured its backing by agreeing to delay action on immigration. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) entered a letter with the details of the understanding into the Congressional record Tuesday.

The document boils down Ryans conversation with Freedom Caucus members to two points:

It is unwise or unproductive to bring up any immigration legislation so long as Barack Obama is president. And as Speaker, you will not allow any immigration bill to reach the House floor for a vote unless the immigration bill is supported by a 'majority of the majority' of Republican House Members.

I need your assurance that you will not use the Speaker's position to advance your immigration policies, except when in accord with the two above statements, because there is a huge gap between your immigration position and the wishes of the American citizens I represent, the letter states.

That informal practice of not putting legislation forward that isn't supported by a majority within the GOP-controlled House is known as the Hastert rule, after former Speaker Dennis J. Hastert (R-Ill.)

Ryan since has reiterated that position publicly, telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Friday that there would be no broad push on immigration reform this year or next.

I think it would be ridiculous to try toattempt immigration reform with a president we simply cannot trust, so I don't think that that's in the cards for this Congress outside of things that we do agree on, like border and interior enforcement, Ryan said.

Denham said that he doesnt expect the Freedom Caucus will be able to block immigration policy changes in perpetuity, especially if they abide by the Hastert policy.

They have done a good job of talking about regular order and following the rules, said Denham, who was among the 14 California House Republicans who supported Ryan. Well, by that very example, then, issues of immigration should be able to come up as well, he said. You cant have it both ways.

In fact, the Caucus has asked Ryan for a rule change that would make it harder for committee chairmen to keep legislation they dont like from making to a floor vote if it is supported by the majority of Republicans.

Denhams ENLIST Act which would allow people brought to the United States illegally as children before 2011 to become lawful alien residents if they complete a term of military service has been sitting in the Armed Services Committee since April.

I am confident that we have a majority of the majority on the ENLIST Act, and Im going to push forward, he said.

Valadao, whose district is 71% Latino, said Ryans commitment to the House Caucus also isnt going to stop him from trying to change the countrys immigration system.

Do I expect a full bill? No, theres not a lot of trust between the conference and the president, and so that puts us in a bad position, he said. But were obviously going to continue to work and hope to get something done, at least some common sense stuff.

California House Democrats also were upset by the news that Ryan doesnt plan to act on immigration without support from a majority of Republicans.

Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Whittier) said she initially thought reform would be more likely under Ryans leadership.

Clearly we are disappointed, because he has been an advocate in the past not just because its the right immigration policy but, from the tax side, he understands what a benefit to the community comprehensive immigration reform would be, said Sanchez, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus chairwoman.

Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles) said he doesnt expect Republicans to be able to keep changes to the countrys immigration system from happening.

Paul Ryan is going to stop immigration from coming up the way he can stop the sun from rising, Becerra said. For any leader in the House to say: Were not going to bring immigration up when we know we need to is essentially capitulating to the extreme forces in the party, he said.

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