On Sunday morning, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., did not discuss whether the GOP is open to the possibility of providing a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. 

CBS News reports Cantor was pressed by CBS News' Major Garrett on "Face the Nation" on the issue, which is a top priority for President Obama and the Democrats. However, he sidestepped the question and began talking about jobs. 

"There's a lot of focus on the immigration issue, but you know in reality, we not only want to help the situation there, a lot of the discussion that we had with our members at the retreat was that we want to help the problems right now: job growth and the lack of the job growth," Cantor said. "I believe that you're going to see us, in Congress, not only continue this discussion on immigration, but we want to try to get to the heart of the issues that are affecting most Americans.

"I'm not running away from this," he continued. "I know this is something that a lot of people want to report on and talk about, but most of the American people are worried about what's going on in their households, the fact that wages have not gone up in this country in ten years," Cantor continued.

House Republicans backed the possibility of legal status for undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria in a set of principles they released on Thursday during the GOP's annual retreat. Republican House leaders said they would deal with immigration reform this year through a series of separate bills.  

Cantor said they should focus on "things that we can agree on," such as the legal status of children brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents when they were young. 

But, on other issues, Cantor said, "there's a lot of distrust of this administration in implementing the law."

"We just heard the president in his State of the Union address say, you know what, if he can't work with Congress, he's going to do it his own way," Cantor said. "There's not been a determined sense that we are going to secure the borders and make sure that the laws on the books are being implemented now. I would say that is a precursor and has to happen first."

Although President Obama has repeated his support for citizenship to be a part of immigration reform, the administration is giving Republicans the opportunity to deal with the issue in their own way. 

"We're not going to jump to any conclusions on this," White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said before Cantor on "Face the Nation." "You know the President's principles, which is that we ought to see a pathway to citizenship for people. We don't want to have a permanent separation of classes or two permanent different classes of Americans in this country."

"We'll see how this plays out, McDonough said. "Our job now is to stand back, see how the House Republicans handle this. And I think we see some important progress here," he added.

In addition, Cantor said the GOP is still discussing ways to replace the Affordable Care Act. 

"I believe firmly that we will have a vote on an alternative for a healthcare system that works for people," he said. "We will have it this year...Obamacare, I believe, is on borrowed time."