Border Wall ‘Off the Table,’ Schumer Says, as Immigration Progress Unravels<br />“I went to a meeting yesterday, a bipartisan meeting of senators, and we’ll see where it goes.”<br />While Mr. Durbin has suggested that the Durbin-Graham proposal should be the starting point for negotiations, Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican who has been a key participant in the bipartisan talks<br />and has a history of bucking his party on immigration, said that would not be the case<br />If you’ve got any ideas, let us know, but the Senate is going to lead on this issue.”<br />The week before the shutdown, a bipartisan group of six senators led by Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, and Mr. Graham proposed a measure<br />that would have provided a path to citizenship for DACA recipients, as well as more than $2.5 billion for border security and a grant of protected status for the parents of the Dreamers, who would be barred from sponsoring their parents for citizenship.
