President Obama said that immigration reform would be an “issue that haunts” Republicans if they failed to act and pressed House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to use his “political capital” to find a solution.

“There’s always gonna be a limit to what I can do in the absence of action by Congress,” Obama said in an interview aired Thursday on “CBS This Morning.” “I think it is very important for Congress to recognize that this is going to be an issue that haunts them until it gets solved.”