Deadlock remains on immigration reform in the United States. There's no telling when Congress will take up the immigration reform bill, commonly known as the Gang of 8 bill that was introduced last year. 

The Republican-led House isn't keen on pushing an immigration bill forward any time this year. President Barack Obama recently told GOP opponents that he was going to take executive action if there was no further movement on immigration reform, forging a new effort. 

On Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Times, Democratic U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez expressed confidence that immigration reform will be handled by an executive order from the president.

"The president has to act. And I believe the president will act," said Gutierrez.  

When looking at both sides of the political debate around immigration, it's clear that the conservative opinion weighs heavily on border security and tighter deportation laws.

On the flipside, liberals are pushing for a clearer path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who come here to work hard and stay out of trouble with the law.  

Yet across the political divide, each side is blaming the other over the lag in reforming immigration.

According to Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, President Obama needs to change laws initiated against human trafficking in 2008. That has to take place before Graham say's he will back the president's request for $3.7 billion to aid in the crisis at the U.S. Mexico border, where hundreds of thousands of children from Central America are coming by themselves into the United States.

Some 90,000 children are expected to come into the United States this year, with an additional 145,000 reportedly expected to arrive in 2015.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has blamed President Obama's so-called amnesty program linked to a 2012 memo. Cruz says it was then that the influx of children coming here started.

The president has four principles for immigration reform that includes strengthening border security, making legal immigration a more streamlined process, allowing immigrants already here a chance at earned citizenship, and targeting employers who hire illegal immigrants.

As an opinion on the Wharton Public Policy Initiative website points out, the deadlock over immigration reform is deeply seated in a clash among parties and not just Democrats over Republicans, it includes the Tea Party.

"Given the political stalemate in Congress, it is highly unlikely that immigration reform will be taken up in the near future. The recent loss of former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to Tea Party challenger David Brat in the Republican Primary in Virginia can be partially attributed to Cantor's moderate stance towards immigration reform. Brat was able to effectively attack Cantor on the issue of immigration reform, among others, in a Tea Party victory that sent the signal to the GOP that immigration reform is a politically risky issue," said the Wharton Public Policy Initiative website.

"On the other hand, pro-immigration activists are now increasing pressure on the President to take executive action to address the status of the 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the country. However, the prospects of Obama issuing executive orders to address the deteriorating situation without the support of Congress is infeasible given that his lack of political capital."