President Obama used a visit to Florida to curry favor with Latino voters and warn Republicans of the political consequences of failing to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill, blaming the failure to move the measure on a small faction of the party.

Addressing an audience at a fundraiser in Miami, the president said his predecessor, President George W. Bush, had supported a major overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws and lamented that the House GOP is now preventing the bill from becoming law.