SHUTDOWN DONALD TRUMP'S OFFER HITS DEMOCRATES 'REFUSAL

"Let's take the politics out of this, get to work and find an agreement," Donald Trump said.

He announced it on Saturday, January 19, in a solemn televised speech: to offer a temporary status to migrants, in exchange for the financing of his wall.

A quasi-democratic proposal

It is a more assertive Donald Trump, less vindictive than usual, who spoke to the Americans. The US president has proposed extending temporary statuses for about one million migrants, who risk being expelled from the country, in exchange for congressional funding for his wall at the US-Mexico border.

The president has proposed to extend for three years the temporary residence permit known as the DACA program created by Barack Obama then deleted that concern 700,000 illegal immigrants, the "dreamers", the miners illegally entered on American soil with their parents . The White House tenant also proposed extending a temporary protection status (or TPS) for three years that allows about 300,000 immigrants to work legally without a residence permit.

To these quasi-democratic proposals is added the recruitment of more police officers at the borders as well as immigration judges.

"Compromise based on common sense" against "new hostage taking"

With this offer, the US president spoke of a "common sense compromise". But the leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, had previously rejected this proposal that had transpired in the media. According to her, what is presented as a presidential concession is only a "compilation of several initiatives already rejected in the past and each one unacceptable". And the leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer to drive the point: he recalls that Donald Trump had in the past removed protections for migrants he now proposes to protect. "Offering protection in exchange for the wall is not a compromise but a new hostage crisis," he tweeted.

The Democrats refuse to give Donald Trump the $ 5.7 billion he needs for the construction of his wall, his iconic campaign promise.

The shutdown, with its 800,000 unpaid federal employees, has a bright future ahead of him, it seems...