John Boehner says no to Senate immigration reform bill, (Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons)

While Democratic leaders have been desperately fighting to defend the merits of the Affordable Care Act, it looks like they are going to start channeling their efforts towards rethinking immigration reform as well. 

On Wednesday, announced that he work to prevent the Senate’s sweeping reform bill to pass through the House. 

“We have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill,” he told reporters. 

Passed over four months ago with bipartisan support, the Senate bill laid out a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. 

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), a very vocal critic of the Senate bill praised House Republicans for "resisting an influence campaign and standing for the interests of the American people."

If Boehner succeeds in killing the bill, the government may have to start from square one, drafting a more bipartisan immigration problem. 

Boehner claims that GOP Rep Bob Goodlatte, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, “is working with our members and across the aisle on developing a set of principles for us to deal with this issue.”

President Obama refuses to give up on his mission of passing an immigration reform bill, during his presidency however. Last week he met with businesses last week’s and won McDonald’s support on the immigration front, and on Wednesday he met with religious leaders to begin planning a nationwide attempt to mobilize immigration advocates. 

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