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Stopgap Measure and Dick Durbin

deal: The overwhelming number in our caucus have said they don't like this deal and they believe if we kick the can down the road this time we'll be back where we started from next time, Schumer said, according to The Chronicle Herald. So there's very, very strong support not to go along with their deal. Democrats' votes are needed to advance the stopgap measure through the Senate, but they have been rebuffed in their demands to add protections against deportation for younger immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children. Talks among a bipartisan group of leaders of both the House and Senate convened Wednesday, but participants reported little progress. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a negotiator but one whose loyalties lie chiefly with separate compromise legislation on the so-called Dreamer immigrants that he's co-authored with Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Cory Gardner, R-Colo., some of the Senate's most dovish Republicans on immigration. Good will but no progress, said Sen. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.