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John Boehner mocks his GOP colleagues on immigration reform

MADISON TOWNSHIP, Ohio, April 25 (UPI) -- House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, mocked his Republican colleagues on immigration reform at an event on Thursday in his home district.

He was speaking on the prospects of Congress passing immigration reform and said he didn't believe that it had a good chance at making it through the House. He said he believed that immigration reform should come to the floor this year but summed up his fellow Republicans response in one animated sentence.

"Oohh don't make me do this! Oh this is too hard!" he cried as he impersonates the GOP quivering.

Although the Senate passed an immigration reform bill in June, the House has not brought a bill on the matter to a vote. Republicans say they prefer a piecemeal approach but no movement has been made on that either. Boehner's frustration with the inaction of his party is apparent in this video.

Boehner Mocks Republican Colleagues On Immigration Reform

With immigration reform stalled in the House, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, mocked his Republican colleagues in remarks on Thursday, suggesting that they are afraid to address the controversial issue.

"Here's the attitude. Ohhhh, don't make me do this. Ohhhh, this is too hard," Boehner whined during a campaign stop in his home district in southwestern Ohio.

"We get elected to make choices. We get elected to solve problems and it's remarkable to me how many of my colleagues just don't want to," he added. "They'll take the path of least resistance."

Boehner said he's been working for more than a year to try to reach a deal on immigration reform despite the resistance from members of his own party.

"I've had every brick and bat and arrow shot at me over this issue just because I wanted to deal with it," Boehner said. "I didn't say it was going to be easy."

While the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill almost a year ago, House Republicans have failed to take action on the bill due in part to GOP opposition to providing a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

Boehner has previously indicated that he prefers a piecemeal approach to reform that starts with securing the borders and enforcing existing immigration laws.

At the same time, the House Speaker has suggested that a lack of faith in President Barack Obama's willingness to properly enforce the laws has held up progress on reform.

Heritage Action, a prominent conservative group, was highly critical of Boehner's remarks about his fellow Republicans, with CEO Michael Needham calling the Speaker's comments "disappointing, but by now not surprising."

"The Republican Party should be large enough for fact-based policy debates," Needham said. "Unfortunately, John Boehner is more interested in advancing the agenda of high-powered DC special interests than inspiring Americans with a policy vision that allows freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society to flourish."

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Guv says aiding Mexican economy may curb immigration

(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Salt Lake Dream Team members hold signs outside the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building in Salt Lake City, demanding immigration reform. Gov. Gary Herbert, who recently returned from leading a trade mission with 41 Utah businesses to Mexico said increased trade and investment will help the economies of the United States and Mexico and will help solve immigration issues.

Trade mission Herbert says trip to Mexico helped expand opportunities for everyone.

While Gov. Gary Herbert repeated a call for federal immigration reform Thursday, he said a trade mission that he led to Mexico this month may help provide the best way to halt illegal immigration by improving that countrys economy.

"The best thing we could do, and the best thing that Mexico could do, for immigration reform would be to improve their economy," Herbert said during his monthly news conference on KUED-TV.

"We dont have a problem with Canada, the people to the north. Theyve got a good economy, and people have jobs and opportunity," he said. "Its only south of our border where we have problems with the disparity so great that people will take great risks to life and limb to come to this country."

So is Herbert advocating that Utah companies move some of their jobs to Mexico?

"Its a two-way street; its not one versus the other," he said. If Utah and Mexico sell goods to each other and invest in each other, he said, it will create more jobs for everyone "and be the proverbial win-win."

Some 41 Utah companies accompanied the governor earlier this month on the trade mission to Mexico, and some signed contracts while there for more business.

He said he also learned about some Mexican investment in Utah, such as how Grupo Bimbo of Mexico City operates a big bakery in Utah that produces such things as Sara Lee products and Grandma Sycamores bread.

That companys "banking interest now will be shifted to a local bank here in Utah," after the trade mission instead of banking outside the state, Herbert said. "So that will hire more people here in Utah from a company based in Mexico City, so it works both ways."

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Herbert says helping Mexican economy may cure immigration