Obama was interrupted by one heckler that The Hill newspaper identified as Blanca Hernandez, an undocumented immigrant activist, who shouted “we need relief now” and was escorted out by security.

Obama defers action on immigration

President delays immigration action

Latinos ‘really pissed off’ with the GOP

Obama emphasized Thursday that he can’t accomplish real, long-term change without what he called the “powerful” Latino vote.

“Si se puede, si votamos. Yes we can, if we vote,” Obama told the crowd to applause.

That rallying call, reminiscent of his 2008 campaign slogan, piles on top of Democratic efforts to mobilize lackluster Latinos who appear less likely to support Democrats in November despite strong backing in recent cycles, according to the Washington Post.

“Nothing I can do will be as comprehensive or lasting as the Senate bill. Anything I can do can be reversed by the next President,” Obama said.

While Obama pushed back his plans for executive action this summer and a bipartisan Senate bill on immigration reform last year failed to pick up steam in the House, Obama insisted that his administration has done a lot to benefit Latinos in his nearly six years in office.

Obama rattled off a list of campaign promises that he said he has kept: from confronting “the crisis of overcrowded classrooms and underfunded schools” to fixing the “broken health care system that left one out of three Hispanics uninsured.”

“The progress we’ve made has been hard. Sometimes it’s been slower than we want, but that progress has been steady and it has been real. We have big things together and we’re going to do more,” Obama said.

And fixing immigration reform falls under that category of “more.”

“Fixing our broken immigration system is one more big thing that we have to do and that we will do,” Obama said.