The White House has made it clear that President Barack Obama will use executive action to address the immigration crisis at the southern U.S. border, but the administration may be cooperating with businesses on how to tackle the problem.

According to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, following recommendations from the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security, Obama could issue an executive order later this month or early in September. White House officials have, however, reviewed options on how potential executive actions may affect businesses. The Wall Street Journal reported businesses are "mostly concerned" with legal immigration policy.

White House officials have reportedly held over 20 meetings with business groups and other associations to hear ideas that Obama could achieve through executive action.

"The president has not made a decision regarding next steps, but he believes it's important to understand and consider the full range of perspectives on potential solutions," said White House spokesman Shawn Turner to the WSJ.

One proposal for Obama affects the cap on employment-based green cards. High-tech businesses have proposed changes to the immigration law that currently counts dependents under the numerical cap, which stands at 140,000 annually. Some businesses have requested that dependents not count, which could double the number of green cards available to immigrants.

One corporation that attended the White House meetings is Compete America, a coalition advocating for reforms including in the visa system that can benefit educated immigrant professionals.

"America loses not only scientists and engineers who could fill vacant high-skilled jobs, but also the additional jobs that these scientists and engineers would create. As a result, America loses 500,000 jobs every year," due to limits on H-1B visas, Compete America noted on their website. "Spread across 50 five-day workweeks, this translates into 2,000 U.S. jobs not created every business day because of overly-restrictive U.S. immigration policy; or, to put it another way, that roughly equals a new job that is lost in America every 63 seconds."

The option to use executive action has been encouraged by national organizations seeking common-sense immigration reform. We Belong Together Co-Chair Andrea Mercado is in favor of Obama exercising executive action to improve the immigration situation. Mercado said she wants Obama to grant immigrants the right to "remain and work legally" in the U.S.

"We want to protect woman workers on the job and for the president to increase the number of work visas that are given to women," Mercado told Latin Post, adding that Obama should also address the backlog in the family immigration system.