Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on Thursday urged his party to step past criticism of President Barack Obama's delay on Immigration Reform and focus on goals -- "principles of American renewal" -- by strengthening the nation's military, giving parents more education choices for their children, promoting energy independence and defending the Constitution.

On immigration reform, Priebus emphasized border security: "We must fix our broken immigration system. We can't reward those who break the laws and punish those who lawfully wait in line," according to the Associated Press.

In an eternal audit after a disappointing election in 2012, the Republican Party saw that it had to embrace immigration reform. However, its extremist flank have since jeopardized those efforts, much to the frustration of people like Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R/FL).

In an interview with Fox News Latino, Diaz-Balart said the immigration system is absolutely broken but any reform must include accountability.

"It's not working for our national security interests, he said. "We don't know who comes in and who leaves. We don't control who comes in and who leaves, and that's not acceptable."

Diaz-Balart said, however, rounding up and deporting the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants is unrealistic.

"[I]t's also hurting our economic interests, so I'm committed to continue to work to fix an immigration system that everyone understands is broken -- fix it for our national security interests but also fix it for our economic interests," he said.

Diaz-Balart worked on an immigration bill that he felt could win bipartisan support in the House, but his efforts were stymied when conservative Republicans wouldn't support a measure that gave a break to undocumented immigrants.

In a recent AP-GfK poll when asked about American voters' top concern going into the mid-term elections their uppermost concern was the economy, with 9 out of 10 saying it was the biggest problem over social issues and terrorism.

On the question of immigration, two-thirds of voters said it was a serious problem and were generally in favor of providing a legal way for undocumented immigrations already in the U.S. to become citizens, with 53 percent backing the policy. Thirty-three percent of Republican voters were in favor of this, too.