It's been 508 days since the Senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill. Since then, Republican opponents of immigration reform have made every excuse in the book to avoid any action to fix our broken immigration system.  As Senate Majority Leader Reid and DPCC Chairman Schumer recently wrote, "Immigrant communities have waited too long for House Republicans to catch up with the American public's support for comprehensive immigration reform." No more excuses; it's time to act.

APRIL 2013: "The fallout from the Boston Marathon bombings is threatening passage of immigration legislation, as conservative Republicans said on Capitol Hill, talk radio, and Twitter that the alleged participation of ethnic Chechen brothers shows the need for slowing down or halting the bill."

JULY 2013: "One of the biggest fears we have about the Senate amnesty bill--and there's no question about it, it's amnesty by any measure, by any metric--is that we can't trust the President. We can't trust him. Whatever we pass into law, we know he's going to cherry-pick. How do we know that? Well, look at the Defense of Marriage Act. He refused to defend that to the courts. Appointees to the NLRB, he did that when, of course, the Senate was actually not in session. It's against the Constitution to do that. ObamaCare, he's picking and choosing the parts of the law that he wants to implement."

SEPTEMBER 2013: "I think we have the situation in Syria, we have the monetary situation, we have the situation with what's called the debt ceiling, which is the ceiling of the debt that we have in the United States. All these things are now coming forward. They are the things that we have to do immediately, right now. And unfortunately, I think that is going to delay the immigration debate a little."

OCTOBER 2013: Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a leadership ally, told reporters Wednesday there is virtually no chance the party would take up immigration reform before the next round of budget and debt-ceiling fights are settled. While that could happen by December if a budget conference committee strikes an agreement, that fight is more likely to drag on well into 2014: The next deadline for lifting the debt ceiling, for example, is not until Feb. 7. "I don't even think we'll get to that point until we get these other problems solved," Cole said.

NOVEMBER 2013: "We don't want a repeat of what's going on now with Obamacare."

JANUARY 2014: "They pointed to the IRS scandal and the Benghazi stuff and then the NSA revelations and then the 'Obamacare' decisions by this administration as evidence of how the government and this administration unilaterally decides which portions of the law to enforce and which ones not to enforce."

JUNE 2014: "Secondly, the issue with immigration reform has not changed. The president continues to ignore laws that he signed into law, violating his oath of office. He did it again with the release of these Taliban Five."

OCTOBER 2014: "Whether it's Ebola, whether it's our border security ... you have to have people that are charged with providing for the common defense [and are] actually serious about doing that."

NOVEMBER 2014: Obama's failure to guard the border against Central American migrants this summer, he said, "created a situation that I think may have not existed before that episode that may have galvanized the country," around the need for improved border security before other immigration issues.

NOVEMBER 2014: Speaker John Boehner (R-OH): Speaker John A. Boehner said Republicans will fight "tooth and nail" against President Barack Obama's plans to act on immigration by himself, and didn't rule out a government shutdown.