After the elections, it’s still to be seen if President Barack Obama will finally deliver its promise to take executive action on immigration, and how he will work with a more Republican Congress.

Starting next year, republicans will have at least 52 seats In the Senate, and 243 in the House of Representatives.

Originally, Obama said he would take executive action this summer, but he decided to wait until after the elections not to affect democratic candidates. Yet his broken promises and and his precautions ended up being counterproductive.

After the elections, the president reiterated he would take action to address the problem of millions of undocumented immigrants by the end of the year.

“Whatever executive actions I take will be replaced and supplanted by action by Congress. You send me a bill I can sign, and those executive actions go away," Obama said.

The president is willing to work with the future Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, and with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, but not to wait forever.

“I have no doubt that there will be some republicans who are angered or frustrated by any executive action that I may take," Obama said, making clear that his words were not meant as an attack to republicans but rather as a call for action.

Boehner responded by saying that “if he (Obama) acts unilaterally on his own outside of his authority, he will poison the well and there will be no chance for immigration reform moving in this Congress.”

Not that immigration reform is one of the priorities in the preview of the republican agenda that Boehner and McConnell published this week in the Wall Street Journal. In fact, there was not a single mention of this topic.

The GOP’s resistance was also made clear in a letter six republican senators sent this week to  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in which they warn him that they "would use all procedural means necessary" to fight against any executive action taken by Obama. Among those who signed the letter: Ted Cruz (Texas), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Mike Lee (Utah), Pat Roberts (Kansas), Jeff Sessions (Alabama), and David Vitter (Louisiana).

Meanwhile, democratic congressman Luis Gutierrez urged Obama to keep his word and to take action before the year is over, perhaps even Thanksgiving. He also urged him to be generous. On the contrary, he warned, the political consequences for democrats could be even worse in the 2016 presidential elections.