U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told Hispanics that comprehensive immigration reform will not come to fruition this summer.

Reid, speaking at the Hispanics in Politics event in Las Vegas, placed blame on House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, for noting voting on an immigration reform bill within the House of Representatives.

Following the breakfast, Reid told reporters that immigration reform is "gone until next year." For activists hoping for comprehensive immigration reform legislation during 2014, Reid stated there's a possibility after the Nov. 4 midterm elections. After the Nov. 4 elections, Reid hinted that Republicans in close election races could decide to vote on immigration reform.

"Maybe we'll get something in the lame-duck," said the Senate majority leader, later adding, "The Republicans should suffer at the ballot box."

Reid also criticized House Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nevada, for not pressuring Boehner for an immigration reform vote, stating, "Why doesn't he go to his leader and tell him, John, why don't you pass this?"

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Heck said he spoke to Boehner about immigration reform prior to the July 4 congressional break.

"Heck said he thinks lawmakers should try to pass pieces of immigration reform, starting with securing the border where thousands of Central Americans, mostly women and children, are now rushing across," Laura Myers said. "Also, Heck said Congress should protect from deportation young undocumented immigrants who were raised in the United States."

"The American people agree that we should do something positive on comprehensive immigration reform," Reid said. "Republicans in the House, led by John Boehner, have done nothing -- nothing."

While members of Congress are on break, President Barack Obama hosted a naturalization ceremony in the White House for 25 service members and military spouses from several countries including China, Germany, Jamaica and Guatemala on July 4.

"Together, all of you remind us that America is and always has been a nation of immigrants. Throughout our history, immigrants have come to our shores in wave after wave, from every corner of the globe.  Every one of us -- unless we're Native American -- has an ancestor who was born somewhere else," President Obama said.

"The basic idea of welcoming immigrants to our shores is central to our way of life, it is in our DNA.  We believe our diversity, our differences, when joined together by a common set of ideals, makes us stronger, makes us more creative, makes us different.  From all these different strands, we make something new here in America.  And that's why, if we want to keep attracting the best and brightest from beyond our borders, we're going to have to fix our immigration system, which is broken, and pass commonsense immigration reform."

According to Obama, the immigration process should not be harder especially for the "best and brightest."

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