GOP lawmakers were challenged to "roll up your sleeves" by Rep. Luis Gutiérrez, D-Ill., on Nov. 23, in an effort to authorize immigration reform before a portion of President Obama's executive orders commence in six months, The Hill reports.

"They have 180 days, starting January first, before the first person applies for a work permit under the president's executive authority. What I'd say to them, roll up your sleeves," Gutiérrez said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

A staunch defender of President Obama's executive actions, Gutiérrez said, "Every time Republicans requested a different route like piecemeal legislation," Democrats didn't depart from negotiations on immigration reform.

"There's no path to citizenship for the 5 million that the president is offering," Gutiérrez told Bob Schieffer, who said the actions being taken by Obama would inspire immigrants to migrate to benefit from the bill. "They can't get a single benefit, welfare benefit from the government. They can pay all the taxes that you and I, I'm sure you feel better and I feel better that they're paying taxes. I'm sure, you and I feel better that they have gone through a background check."

"Now we can put the resources on criminals. So what the president has says, look, I want to go out to felons, I want to go out to criminals. I don't want to break up families and go out to children. But let's suggest this; we're going to put more border patrol agents on the border because now they don't have to do as much interior enforcement."

Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, disagreed: "I think we should censure the president of the United States, I think it's unfortunate that he did this, I think we need to lay out clearly why this is unlawful; I think we need to pass a funding bill that separates homeland security from that funding bill."

Labrador said the Obama administration should also be required to undergo a comment period.

"We can't take the bait from the Democrats," he said. "We can't say we're not going to do immigration reform. We need to tell the American people what we're for, and we need to show them the step-by-step approach that we have been doing in the House."

Labrador said he also spoke with House GOP leaders requesting the party start passing immigration reform legislation two weeks prior.

"I think we're going to start doing things," he said. "As you know, I serve on the House Judiciary Committee and the Immigration subcommittee, and I think we're going to pass legislation. But it's not going to be the legislation that the president is asking for."