Photo: ReutersTalks on border security funding have collapsed after Democratic and Republican lawmakers clashed over immigrant detention policy as they worked to avert another US government shutdown, a Republican senator says. Efforts to resolve the dispute over border security funding extended into the weekend as a special congressional negotiating panel aimed to reach a deal by Monday, lawmakers and aides said. The remainder would be at border detention centers. Lawmakers working on a border deal also have not yet nailed down the amount of money to go for physical barriers along the southern US border, the source said. On Friday, some of the negotiators said that if Congress could not pass a border security bill by Friday, they would move to pass another stop-gap funding bill to avert a shutdown and allow more time to reach a border deal.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 11, 2019 01:30 UTC