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Top Republicans will meet with President Barack Obama today after warning him that changing U.S. immigration policy without involving Congress would invite big trouble and make a future compromise impossible.

Obama invited House Speaker John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican in line to be the next Senate majority leader, to the White House -- along with other leaders of both parties -- to discuss agenda items he wants to see completed before the new Congress takes office in January.

On immigration, acting without Congress would be inviting big trouble, Boehner said yesterday, while McConnell equated it to waving a red flag in front of a bull a day earlier.

Republicans won more seats in both chambers in the Nov. 4 election and will now have the majority in the House and Senate.

Obama this week repeated a promise to take action by the end of the year to halt deportations for some undocumented immigrants if Congress doesnt move on rewriting U.S. law.

If the president does that, he will poison the well and there will be no chance for immigration reform moving in this Congress, Boehner told reporters at a news conference yesterday in Washington.

Boehners party won at least 245 House of Representatives seats in the Nov. 4 election, giving Republicans their largest majority since World War II. The party gained at least seven Senate seats, more than enough to take control in January.

Obama said Republicans who might be angered or frustrated are also deeply opposed to immigration reform in any form.

What Im not going to do is just wait, the president said.

The Democratic-run Senate last year voted to boost border security and create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, a policy some Republicans call amnesty. The plan, S. 744, stalled in the House, where leaders said they wanted to act on a piecemeal basis though no bills were passed.

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Republicans Warn Obama of Trouble on Immigration