It’s a given Obama’s going to issue some kind of executive order on immigration, how broad it will be is the question.

WASHINGTON — As Republicans blame President Barack Obama’s executive actions for the crisis along the border, the president assured members of his own party Wednesday that he won’t back down from his plans to ease deportations.

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, meeting at the White House with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden amid the intensifying debate over unaccompanied minors surging across the southern U.S. border, made a two-prong political push, according to attendees. The first was to protect a law that keeps many unaccompanied minors from being rapidly deported. The second was to ensure that the administration doesn’t waver from its pledge to get relief for millions of undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for years.

A few weeks ago, these two Hispanic Caucus priorities seemed well protected. But both have been imperiled in recent days as Republicans have ratcheted up their argument that the wave of unaccompanied minors — more than 57,000 have crossed the border this fiscal year — has been due in part to Obama’s 2012 policy allowing young people who entered the U.S. as children years ago to remain here.