“The only thing that’s holdin’ it back right now is John Boehner calling in to the floor,” Obama told Telemundo’s Jose Diaz-Balart in a wide-ranging interview, “because we’ve got a majority of members of Congress, Democrats and some Republicans, in the House of Representatives, who would vote for it right now if it hit.” …

“Everybody should be focused on making sure that that bill that’s already passed out of the Senate hits the floor of the House of Representatives. It’s not as if the votes are not there. The votes are there,” Obama said. “The only thing that’s preventing it is Speaker Boehner’s decided that he doesn’t wanna call it right now.” …

“We need to make sure that employers who are taking advantage of undocumented workers, that they are penalized. We’ve got to improve our legal immigration system so that people aren’t waiting for years to get into the country when in fact we should welcome them And finally we should have a pathway to citizenship,” Obama said. “And if those elements are contained in a bill, whether they come through the House a little bit at a time or they come in one fell swoop, I’m less concerned about process, I’m more interested in making sure it gets done.”