President Obama on Wednesday urged likely Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush to press senior leaders of his party to back comprehensive immigration reform, dismissing GOP claims that the White House scuttled any hope for a legislative solution.

“I appreciate Mr. Bush being concerned about immigration reform. I would suggest that what he do is talk to the speaker of the House and the members of his party,” Obama said in an immigration town hall in Miami hosted by MSNBC and Telemundo. “Even after we passed bipartisan legislation in the Senate, I gave the Republicans a year and a half — a year and a half — to just call the bill. We had the votes. They wouldn’t do it.”