U.S. Senior Senator, Lindsey Graham says he is optimistic that Republicans, Democrats and President Donald Trump, could reach a deal to end a government shutdown, that includes border wall funding and legal status, for some illegal immigrants.
Senator Graham, a Republican, told reporters after meeting President Trump, that the US President was receptive to his idea of a deal that might provide work permits to so-called Dreamers, people brought illegally to the United States as children, in exchange for money for physical border barriers.
He indicated that there would never be a government spending deal, that did not include money for a wall, or other physical barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The wall was one of the central promises of Mr Trump’s presidential campaign.