We knew there were differences we needed to
bridge. We agreed to four different pillars that we would use as a
basis for negotiation. Come up with something that the DACA population
needs, something compassionate--something very similar or maybe
something between the bill that Senator Lankford, Senator Hatch, and I
proposed, the SUCCEED Act and the Dream Act--and bridge the
differences. We were making progress. We also knew that we had to deal
with things like the diversity lottery, border security, and what some
of our colleagues call family reunification, which has been abused and
needs to be fixed. Others call it chain migration. At the end of that meeting, we agreed that what we needed to do was
to have the leaders, the whips of the House and the Senate--the
Democrats and the Republicans--agree to a timeline and a schedule and
then get together and work out our differences. I, for one, think those
meetings should
be open to the public because then the public would realize, I think,
that we are not that far apart.
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