Immigration Reform News Today: John Boehner Says Reform is Top Priority, But GOP Remains Weary

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, plans to make immigration reform a top priority, the top Republican told business executives in Dublin, Ireland, over the weekend.
The U.S. News & World Report noted his remarks were surprising given congressional Republicans' resistance to the issue, as well as his own refusal to put the matter up for a vote in the House of Representatives.

While speaking at an Independence Day luncheon at the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland, Boehner recounted how Taoiseach Enda Kenny -- the Irish equivalent of a prime minister -- urged him to tackle the overhaul of the U.S. immigration system, the Irish Times detailed. Kenny told Boehner that "the lack of reform has left some Irish immigrants listening to a parent's funeral by phone."

"Oh John, John, you don't realize there are about (50,000) of my fellow Irishmen came to the U.S. and never quite made it back across the pond," the premier is said to have told Boehner.

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