On Wednesday, Illinois Rep. Luis Gutiérrez said that chances for an immigration reform deal are gone in a speech on the House floor.

Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the Senate's passing of a bipartisan immigration reform bill that would eventually give citizenship to some of the 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The bill also allots billions of dollars to border security and changes the law to better allow undocumented immigrants to work in the country legally, Associated Press reports.

Gutiérrez expressed frustration in how things have followed since, as despite his efforts, he failed to get the bill approved in the House. According to AP, House GOP leaders expressed interest in passing the bill, but a "vocal group of conservative lawmakers" halted efforts.

"Having been given ample time and space to craft legislation you failed," Gutiérrez said in reference to House Republicans. "Your chance to play a role in how immigration and deportation policies are carried out this year is over."

The democrat was not shy about putting the blame on republicans.

"Nothing's going to happen," Gutiérrez told Washington Post after his speech. "My point of view is this is over. There's no reason to continue to wait. Every day, 1,000 people get deported. The president should stop deportations. There's no reason to wait. Wait for what? Every day, they [Republicans] become not recalcitrant but even more energetically opposed to working with us. How many times does someone have to say no until you understand they mean no?"

Now, Gutiérrez is urging President Barack Obama to take control of immigration reform.

"The president now has no other choice but to act within existing law to ensure that our deportation policies are humane, that due-process rights are protected, that detention conditions are as they should be, and, most importantly, that the people we are deporting are detriments to our communities, not assets to our families, economy and society," he told the House, Chicago Sun-Times reports.
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