Obama Says He's 'Frustrated' Over Immigration Court Battle

U.S. President Obama smiles during an exchange with a reporter after his end of the year press conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, on Dec. 19, 2014. | REUTERS/Larry Downing

U.S. President Barack Obama recently stated that he is "frustrated" over a court's recent decision to block his executive order immigration plan.

"With respect to immigration, obviously, I'm frustrated by a district court ruling that now is winding its way through the appeals process," Obama said at the G7 Summit in Germany this week.

The president went on to say that although his administration is working "as aggressive as we can legally," his immigration plans continue to hit legal barriers.

The Commander-in-Chief added at his German press conference that he believes Americans want change on the issue of immigration and he believes the topic will play a major role in the 2016 presidential campaign.

"I suspect it will be a major topic of the next presidential campaign," Obama said.

2016 presidential hopefuls are already beginning to spar on the issue of immigration, with Florida Senator Marco Rubio recently telling Fox News that he never flip flopped on the issue, instead accusing democratic 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of flip flopping.

"She's never done anything on it," Rubio said this past week on Fox News' "Outnumbered." "She was a U.S. senator and never did anything on immigration. She gave speeches about it. It's interesting, a couple months ago she talked about—she's in favor of all citizenship. Just a few years ago she wasn't in favor of giving them driver's licenses. This has been a dramatic shift on her part and a changing of her opinion."