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Once again, theres said to be a thin ray of hope for immigration reform gaining passage this year. And once again, any hope of passage rests with one man: John Boehner. Republican and Democratic advocates see one final, long-shot chance to pass immigration reform this summer, and its fate rests with a Speaker stuck between his partys resistance and his search for a career-defining legacy, reports the Hill.

Weve heard this same story many, many times before.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is voicing confidence in the prospects for immigration reform in the House, the Hill reported in January 2013.

Speaker John Boehner gave a sliver of fresh insight into his thinking about immigration reform, saying he thinks legislation will pass the House before Congress has to wrestle with the debt ceiling, Politico reported in July 2013.

Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio has signaled he may embrace a series of limited changes to the nations immigration laws in the coming months, the New York Times reported in January of this year.

Each time the Boehner may back immigration reform balloon goes up, it gets popped, often by Boehner himself.

It always comes back to Boehner and the will-he-wont-he decision he keeps putting off. The fact that any immediate hopes for reforming the grossly dysfunctional immigration system rest with this self-interested coward should be enough reason to believe that nothing will happen any time soon.

Boehner wants to pass immigration reform. But he cant, explains the speaker, because theres a trust gap between Barack Obama and the House Republicans. Boehner says his caucus cant sign on to any reforms until they can trust Obama to enforce the law and evict as many brown people from the country as possible. The American people and including many of my members dont trust that the reform were talking about will be implemented as it was intended to be, Boehner has said.

Try to envision a scenario in which the House Republican caucus could be described as trusting of the president. Right now theyre a hairs breadth from filing articles of impeachment over the Benghazi coverup they know happened but cant prove. Boehners setting a bar for action on immigration that he knows is impossible for Obama to clear.

If there is a problem with trust, its safe to say that it emanates from the Republican adherence to a maximalist position on border enforcement and deportations. Forget Obama its doubtful that any person sufficiently moderate enough to win the presidency could also win the trust of the House Republican caucus on immigration.

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Its up to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Republican and Democratic advocates see one final, long-shot chance to pass immigration reform this summer, and its fate rests with a Speaker stuck between his partys resistance and his search for a career-defining legacy.

Boehner clearly wants to overhaul the immigration system, but to revive the issue, he will have to untangle knots he tied during the past year.

First, he ruled out the Senates comprehensive bill and said no House bill would get a vote absent support from a majority of Republicans. Then he announced that instead of a single, wide-ranging bill, the House would take a step-by-step approach, with reform embodied in several separate bills that could not be reconciled with the Senate proposal.

Yet these practical or procedural hurdles may not be Boehners biggest challenge. The highest bar to clear may be an issue of trust, specifically trust of President Obama.

Since February, the Speaker has said legislation cannot proceed until Republicans can trust the administration to enforce any new laws Congress passes.

It is a seemingly impossible standard for a president reviled by a majority of Republican lawmakers. Even stalwart advocates of immigration reform see scant chance of Obama meeting it.

Nobody trusts the president, and thats just the reality, said Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), a Republican who has written a bill that beefs up border security and offers a path to legal status for illegal immigrants. Can the president re-establish his credibility in the next two months with the House, with the American people or with our allies? No. I think he can hopefully not make it worse.

Boehner has not said how Obama could restore trust among Republicans who have watched angrily as he has repeatedly delayed parts of the healthcare law without congressional approval. Aides say, however, that he could begin by working with GOP members on some of their other priorities, such as the Skills Act, which the House passed to overhaul federal job-training programs.

A House GOP leadership aide said Obama could also help his cause by publicly ruling out unilateral action to halt deportations and by promising to enforce any new immigration law fully in the way Congress intended.

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