Although House Republicans refuse to pass immigration reform this year, Vice President Joseph R. Biden said with confidence on Wednesday that the Senate-passed immigration reform bill will eventually pass in the House.

"We're going to pass this Senate bill that we're talking about here. It's going to happen," Mr. Biden said during an online question-and-answer session, according to The Washington Times.

One woman asked whether her parents, who are not citizens, could be deported, which led to Biden's guarantee that the comprehensive immigration reform bill will soon pass.

"You're not going to have to worry about anything. And your parents aren't going to have to worry about being deported," Mr. Biden said. "They're going to get in line and they're going to move exactly the way the bill calls for and they'll be able to earn their citizenship within a time frame that's rational."

Biden and Cecilia Munoz, the White House's Director of Domestic Policy, expressed optimism during the Q and A that the nation's immigration system will be reformed and improved. They said it will soon pass because immigration reform is supported by both Democrats and Republicans, and is also supported by a majority of the American public.

However, the vice president's optimism may seem a bit premature considering the staunch opposition many GOP House members have to the bill.

House Speaker John Boehner said the House will not take up the Senate measure, and will instead take a piecemeal approach to passing immigration reform.

The Senate bill, which was passed in June, is comprehensive. It includes measures about border security, employment verification measures and a pathway to citizenship.

"We've made it clear that we're going to move on a common-sense, step-by-step approach in terms of how we deal with immigration," Boehner said last month.

"The idea that we're going to take up a 1,300-page bill that no one had ever read, which is what the Senate did, is not going to happen in the House," he added. "And frankly, I'll make clear we have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill."

Meanwhile, immigration reform activists have become more aggressive in pressuring lawmakers to pass the bill in 2014, CBS News reports.