Will the House Republicans stop Immigration Reform?

The Senate just passed an historic Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill complete with a border “surge” calling for doubling the number of agents on the border and revising work permit ID requirements so as to end hiring of undocumented workers. But the Tea Party branch of the Republican controlled House has vowed to kill any immigration reform that stops short of rounding up and deporting all persons here illegally now and making the border completely impenetrable, something even North Korea has been unable to achieve.

It appears the bill would easily pass in the house, with perhaps 80 or more Republican votes plus nearly all of the house Democrats voting Yea. But Speaker Boehner has vowed to follow the Hastert Rule that nothing even goes to the floor for a vote unless a majority of his own party supports it. If the Tea Party wing of the GOP derails Immigration Reform, how will they ever persuade Hispanics that they should vote Republican? Will there ever be enough photo ops and exalting of this and that token Hispanic legislator to make legislative policies and positions that are anathema to most Hispanic and Latino Americans seem palatable to them?