"I was encouraged that the president said that he wouldn't stand in the way of a step-by-step immigration reform," Boehner said.
He took a step toward immigration reform by allowing certain young immigrants to obtain work permits.
Trump, who scored an upset victory last week over Democrat Hillary Clinton, made building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border a central issue of his campaign and has pledged to step up immigration enforcement against the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants.
A small but worthy step toward immigration reform is returning as an amendment to the defense authorization bill.
In a step that immigration experts say would have been inconceivable a few years ago, Utah, North Carolina and Tennessee are issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
But Abbott, who warned Hernandez of the cuts in a letter last week, has only begun his fight to step up immigration enforcement around Texas.
On Thursday, Democrats in the Texas Senate blocked a measure that would have stepped up immigration enforcement in cities.
But facing criticism from the right, he has stepped up immigration enforcement, deporting record numbers of undocumented immigrants and sending more troops to the border than ever before.
As the administration has stepped up immigration raids at work sites in the last two years, employers' participation has grown sharply.
The bill would have expanded guest-worker programmes and stepped up immigration enforcement at the border and workplace.
He said, 'I will do everything I can at the end of the summer.' " But Democratic Senate candidates in competitive races, like Kay Hagan, in North Carolina, implored the White House not to take any controversial steps on immigration before the midterm elections.
