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Article snippet: “In all likelihood no, we won’t have a single unified position on that. There will be wide varieties based on where your state is. ... We won’t have a single Republican message,” Sen. MORE (R-Okla.) told reporters. A growing number of Senate Republicans are backing a scaled-back plan that would include only a DACA fix and a border security package — though the details of such an agreement would still need to be sketched out. Sen. MORE (R-S.D.), the No. 3 Senate Republican, said the idea “may be the best we can hope for.” Sen. MORE (R-W.Va.) also predicted that an agreement that is “much smaller than what the president is going for” is where Congress will end up. “It’s probably going to be some sort of legal status for DACA recipients that gives them the permanence of legal status and then the border security,” Capito told MetroNews's “Talkline.” Under the deal struck during a televised meeting last month, negotiators agreed to include a fix for DACA, border security, changes to family-based immigration and the State Department’s diversity visa lottery program in any agreement. But senators are increasingly looking for a back-up plan as talks among the No. 2s — Sens. MORE (D-Md.) — have failed to produce a deal. Durbin and Hoyer both told reporters last week that they didn’t believe the talks, which routinely involve White House chief of staff MORE and Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short, have made progress. Asked about the role of the group, Durbin la... Link to the full article to read more