As deadlock on the issue of immigration reform continues, the overwhelming response has stayed the same, most people want a decision to be made sooner than later.

While it's still unclear whether or not President Barack Obama will use executive action, he spoke about last month about his bid to reform immigration policy. And now leaders from the business world and social media users across the country have backed a call for movement on the issue. 

As deportations have ticked up recently, the Obama administration has moved to stem the historic flow of immigrant children from Central America across the Mexico-U.S. border.

However, his allies in Congress don't want to see a policy that simply means an increase in sending children -- some 57,000 who have arrived here so far -- back to dangerous neighborhoods in their homelands.

The children are fleeing en masse from places with high murder rates and gang violence, such as El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras.

"Politically, the surge in crossings has allowed conservatives to seize on the crisis as new evidence that Mr. Obama's policies are inviting illegal immigration across a still-porous border - and has once again set the president at odds with many Democrats and immigration activists," the New York Times wrote.

"A poll conducted July 8 to 14 by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that the proportion of people saying it was important to pass "significant" immigration legislation had risen to 61 percent, from 49 percent in February," the article said. "At the same time, the public by a nearly two-to-one margin disapproves of the president's handling of the Central American surge, with 56 percent giving him negative marks and 28 percent positive. "

This level of support is clear from a search on social media for posts related to immigration reform. Several hasthags related to the topic have surfaced, with much of the Twitterverse looking for answers. 

In a recent opinion published in the Times by businesses leaders, Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft, Investor Warren Buffett, and casino owner Sheldon Adelson, the call for a stop to the gridlock was read far and wide and shared throughout social media.

"A Congress that does nothing about these problems is extending an irrational policy by default; that is, if lawmakers don't act to change it, it stays the way it is, irrational," the opinion said. "The current stalemate - in which greater pride is attached to thwarting the opposition than to advancing the nation's interests - is depressing to most Americans and virtually all of its business managers. The impasse certainly depresses the three of us."

The reactions on social media highlighted the failures of the current immigration stalemate, as it's mentioned in the opinion article.