An executive action on the immigration crisis is likely to come after the summer, said a White House adviser.
It wouldn't be the first time President Barack Obama has made a grand move in support of undocumented immigrants.

In 2012, Obama put deferred action into play.

As the TheHill.com reports, "Obama announced that his administration would defer deportations for two years for people who came to the United States illegally as children. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has allowed people who are in school, have graduated or have been honorably discharged from the military to stay in the country without fear of deportation. More than 550,000 youths have received the two-year deportation deferrals, which are now being renewed for another two years."

"The DACA program stands as one of Obama's most significant executive actions, and he's signaled a willingness to go further given the stalemate in Congress on immigration legislation," the newspaper reported

White House officials, led by Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz and White House Counsel Neil Eggleston, along with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, have been working to chart a plan on executive actions Obama could take, hosting frequent meetings with interest groups and listening to recommendations from immigration advocates, law enforcement officials, religious leaders, Hispanic lawmakers and others," the Associated Press recently reported.

And these actions have been ongoing for much of the summer. "Advocates and lawmakers who were in separate meetings Friday said that administration officials are weighing a range of options including reforms to the deportation system and ways to grant relief from deportation to targeted populations in the country, likely by expanding Obama's two-year-old directive that granted work permits to certain immigrants brought here illegally as youths," the AP said. 

Some half-a-million people have benefited from the President's 2012 executive action on DACA. 

An analysis by NBCNews.com says the "White House  seems even more emboldened after House Republicans' upcoming lawsuit against the president, as well as renewed talk of impeachment."

The President is being targeted for so-called executive overreach by Republicans and the Obama administration is certain that a major move on immigration will trigger much worse: impeachment. 

"The President acting on immigration reform will certainly up the likelihood that [Republicans] would contemplate impeachment at some point," said longtime Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer.

The last executive action taken by President Barack Obama involved a move to increase employment rights for transgender people on July 21.