Both the American Farm Bureau Federation and the United Farm Workers are intensifying their lobbying on immigration reform as President Barack Obama ramped up the pressure on Congress to pass a comprehensive bill and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., pushed backed.

Nearly 100 American Farm Bureau Federation leaders and members from Colorado, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio will arrive in Washington Tuesday to advocate congressional passage of comprehensive immigration reform, Farm Bureau said today.

United Farm Workers Vice President Giev Kashkooli, who was invited to be with Obama Thursday when the president delivered his remarks on immigration, noted in a news release that House Republicans have resisted proposals to grant undocumented workers a a path toward legal status.

"Polls have shown that the majority of Americans favor giving new immigrants the option of applying for citizenship, but the House Republican leadership wants to tell these immigrants, 'You can pick our crops, you can take care of children and elderly, but you can't be one of us,'" Kashkooli said.

Obama praised the Senate-passed bill, but added, “And what I’ve said to them, and I’ll repeat today, is if House Republicans have new and different, additional ideas for how we should move forward, then we want to hear them. I’ll be listening.”

“I hope President Obama meant what he said today about listening to new and different ideas presented by House Republicans to improve our immigration system because House Republicans and the American public have rejected the Senate approach,” Goodlatte said in a news release.

"Our immigration system is in desperate need of reform and I remain committed to working on this critical issue. But we don’t need another massive, Obamacare-like bill that is full of surprises and dysfunction after it becomes law.”

Goodlatte noted that the House expects to take a step-by-step approach.