Durbin Proposes Immigration Talks With Kyl

By Melanie Starkey
Roll Call Staff
May 15, 2011, 10:31 a.m.




Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin invited Minority Whip Jon Kyl on Sunday to privately discuss ways to move forward on comprehensive immigration reform.

“Here’s the offer I’ll make to Jon Kyl and [Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)]: I will sit down with you, I will work with you to have border security beyond what the president’s done — and I think we’ve done an enormous, made an enormous investment there,â€