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By Eric Bradner, CNN

updated 7:01 PM EST, Fri November 7, 2014

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Washington (CNN) -- House Speaker John Boehner warned President Barack Obama in person Friday that signing an executive order overhauling immigration laws would spoil their chances of cooperating on other issues in the future.

Boehner, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and other congressional leaders met with Obama for a two-hour lunch at the White House, where Boehner repeated the warning he'd issued after Republicans seized control of both chambers in Tuesday's midterm elections.

Sources said immigration reform was the focus of a 30-minute discussion during the lunch.

"The speaker warned that unilateral action by the president on executive amnesty will erase any chances of doing immigration reform and will also make it harder for Congress and the White House to work together successfully on other areas where there might otherwise be common ground," Boehner's office said of the lunch.

He and other congressional leaders didn't talk to reporters as they left the White House. But the White House said in a readout of the lunch that Obama "reiterated his commitment to taking action on immigration reform in light of the House's inability to pass a comprehensive bill."

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Obama had already repeated his pledge to sign an executive order on immigration in the coming months during a news conference this week -- and Boehner and McConnell separately said doing so would "poison the well" and complicate the White House's chances of getting Congress on board with any of its other goals.

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