Article snippet: Lawmakers and administration officials on Sunday jostled over messaging on immigration on the ninth day of a partial government shutdown largely prompted by conflict over the issue. While neither side appears ready to budge over including border wall funding in the bill needed to fund the government, on immigration issues there has been some movement over the past week following the deaths of two migrant children in government custody and the killing of a police officer, the suspect in which is an immigrant in the country illegally. On Sunday, both Democrats and Republicans, along with White House counselor MORE, sought to tread carefully around the recent deaths, but cited the incidents in pushing for an end to the partial shutdown and offered some hints as to what might eventually break the stalemate. The two sides argued over definitions of border security, with Democrats slamming proposed border wall — or something like it — is a necessary tool to secure the border and address underlying immigration issues, while Democrats insisted they would not budge on a wall they described as an ineffective use of money. "It is a silly semantic argument because people who just want to say 'wall, wall, wall,' want it to be a four-letter word and not respect what Customs and Border Patrol and [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] tell us they need, which is enhancements of the border," Conway said on "Fox News Sunday." "There may be a wall in some places, there may be stee... Link to the full article to read more