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(CNN) -- Republican lawmakers overwhelmingly agreed on Sunday talk shows that shutting down the government to avoid unilateral action by President Barack Obama on immigration is not a good option

"I think there's got to be more productive ways for us to be able to impress on the President the need to work for a permanent solution as opposed to a temporary stop-gap solution," Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor and two-time presidential candidate, said on the CBS show "Face the Nation."

"The President ought to let the Republican Congress, the Republican House and the Republican Senate, come together with legislation that they put on his desk which relates to immigration. And he can veto it or not, but let the Congress and let this election have its say, as opposed to jumping in by doing something unilaterally -- and in a way which is extraconstitutional -- he's poking an eye of the Republican leaders in Congress, and he's making it more difficult for there to be a permanent solution to this issue."

Another potential 2016 presidential contender for the GOP also weighed in.

"No, we shouldn't shut down the government," Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said on "Fox News Sunday." "But absolutely they should do everything they can to force the President to follow the law."

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