“ i hope obama on immigration .
a majority of house republicans oppose providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers .
leadership also says skepticism of president barack obama within the house republican conference is at a high , and that ’s fueled a desire to stay out of a negotiating process with the senate .
if republicans win some democratic support on piecemeal bills , they could move forward this year .
democrats want to hold onto that decisive margin in their bid to keep control of the u.s. senate and win a house majority in next year ’s congressional races .
a growing chorus of gop lawmakers and aides are intensely skeptical that any of the party ’s preferred piecemeal immigration bills can garner the support 217 republicans — they would need that if democrats did n’t lend their votes .
the house has no plans to vote on any immigration reform is stalled this year .
but still , anything that makes its way to the floor needs to have significant house republican support and obama
some fellow democrats to press the issue now is only one of the hurdles facing legislation this year .