Article snippet: Top Senate negotiators, feverishly working behind closed doors in recent days, say Republican leadership, including the president, has committed to bring a bipartisan deal to the floor in January to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, though prospects for such a compromise are unclear. While another bipartisan meeting was scheduled for Wednesday evening and sources tell ABC that progress is being made, lead Democratic negotiator Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) offered a less sanguine assessment, saying, “We have a long way to go.” That statement was in marked contrast to one he made just a day earlier that the negotiators were “getting closer.” In part, the Illinois senator blamed the administration. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, along with Kevin McAleenan, Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Border Patrol Chief Ronald Vitiello, attended a meeting last night in the Senate office of Democratic Whip Durbin. Republican Senators, including Durbin’s counterpart, James Lankford; along with Democrat Michael Bennett of Colorado were among the attendees. Kelly and his team, according to Flake, laid out their expectations for the filibuster. Durbin said it was the first time the White House had joined the bipartisan talks, but according to the senator, “Their requests go way beyond what we thought we would be willing to do for border security.” But Durbin said he would wait to see the admini... Link to the full article to read more