(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said Sunday that the Border Safety and Security Act (H.R. 29) does not secure the border and therefore won’t get to the House floor.

“I'm asking for a border package that focuses on securing the border and an immigration package that focuses on legal immigration,” the congressman told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“Both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party often get it wrong when they focus on illegal immigration, and I'm going to do everything in my power, whether it's to buck my own party or buck the other party, to be able to say, we have to have real tangible solutions,” Gonzales said.

“H.R.29 is a prime example, this Border Safety and Security Act. It does anything but secure the border. So guess what? That bill in particular, it's dead. There's no way it's going to get on the floor. I'm going to do everything in my power to prevent that, because in my district people are dying, and we need real solutions, not political rhetoric,” he said.

“Well, talking about political rhetoric, you've said this, that there are people who have interest in making this crisis flare up. Dan Crenshaw recently urged the Biden Administration to initiate military action against cartels,” host Margaret Brennan said.

“James Comer said President Trump should have bombed drug labs. Lindsey Graham, senator from South Carolina, demanded U.S. forces destroy drug labs. None of that sounds serious. That's the Republican policy option that deals with the things you say are important,” she said.

GONZALES: I spent 20 years in the Navy. I spent five years in Iraq and Afghanistan. I fought in two wars. I know what war looks like. I hate war, I want to prevent war.

BRENNAN: And not bomb drug labs?

GONZALES: And not do these things, but part of it is rolling up your sleeves and going to work. Just last week, I gave Senator John Cornyn a lot of credit. He put together this congressional delegation, 12 members, six Republicans, five Democrats and an independent. We traveled to Mexico City last week -- last weekend.

We met with the president of Mexico, and we had a four-hour dialogue, four- hour discussion. That is how you solve problems. Now, I look at it that's the State Department's job, and the State Department isn't doing their job, but Congress can't just point fingers. We can't just please blame. We are an equal body, and we got to roll up our sleeves and find solutions.