The Republican Party has started its push to gain some Latino voters ahead of next year's presidential elections. Though the candidates continue tossing their hats into the ring, the party has begun to push back on immigration and one candidate, Sen. Lindsey Graham, has the record to back the party's new focus.

On Monday, Florida's Republican governor, Rick Scott, went on Univision, one of the nation's largest Spanish-language channels, to attack the Obama administration's work on immigration reform, continuing to reform the GOP's image concerning immigration reform.

"I think President Obama has failed us," Gov. Scott told Univision's Enrique Acevedo. "We know we need comprehensive immigration reform; we need more secure borders. He has not moved the ball. In six and a half years, all that he has done is being questioned in the courts."

The Florida Republican continued, saying the country needed a plan to work on immigration reform and ensure the border is secure. He wants a plan to ensure people follow legal immigration paths when arriving in the U.S.

"I think President Obama has failed on immigration reform," Gov. Scott said. "I look forward to the next president to work on it. It's not an easy thing to do, but this is a country of legal migration and I think we will have a plan."

Gov. Scott spoke with the Spanish-language channel ahead of his Economic Growth Summit. The event will host many Republican presidential hopefuls, prompting the shift towards immigration. However, one Democratic aide has pointed out inaccuracies in Gov. Scott's statement.

Lorella Praeli, Hillary Clinton's recently appointed Latino Outreach Director, took to Twitter to refute some of Gov. Scott's points.

"Classic GOP talking points on immigration," she wrote. "Pretends Republicans haven't been blocking immigration for years."

However, the latest entry into the ever-growing Republican lineup has a much better record than any of the other current candidates.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina announced on Monday, June 1 that he would run for his party's nomination. In his speech, he opted to focus on national security, for which he is well known for, and failed to highlight his moderate stance on immigration reform.

Sen. Graham has been supporting immigration reform for much of his career in Congress, including co-sponsoring one of the last bills that attempted to amend the nation's immigration problem.

In 2013, he supported Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act. He has also advocated for the Republican Party to become more open on immigration reform.

"If we don't at least make a down payment on solving the problem and rationally dealing with the 11 million [undocumented immigrants in the U.S.], if we become the party of self-deportation in 2015 and 2016, then the chance of winning the White House I think is almost nonexistent," Sen. Graham told CNN's Dana Bash in December 2014.

His attempts on immigration reform have earned him some support from at least one immigrant activist group, Alliance for Citizenship.

"Sen. Graham is among the few Republicans who consistently supports immigration reform, going as far as warning his own party of the consequences of blocking a permanent fix to our nation's broken immigration system," the group's executive director Lupe Lopez told NBC News.

Despite his advocacy for a pro-active approach on immigration reform, the senator's voting record is not all favorable. In February he voted for the Immigration Rule of Law Act, which defunded President Obama's executive orders on immigration.

He also released a statement in support of South Carolina suing the federal government over the same orders.

"I fully support Attorney General Wilson's efforts to challenge President Obama's executive order. The President does have prosecutorial discretion, but he does not have the power to confer legal status by executive fiat. It's one thing to delay or defer prosecutions. It's something else entirely to grant millions of people a legal status without going through Congress," he said in his statement.

The Republican Party is aware the Latino vote is important and immigration reform remains one of the top issues for the community. The Pew Research Center predicted in 2012 that the Latino electorate would double by 2030 to around 40 percent.

Polls have shown Latinos continue to place an emphasis on immigration reform, including a Latino Decisions survey from last year's midterm elections. A poll by the Public Religion Research Institute from 2014 found the majority of Americans (60 percent) favored a path to citizenship. Latino Decisions also found Latinos favor the president's executive orders, which could prove troublesome for the GOP and one South Carolina senator.