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Migrants on the Mexican side emerge from a river heading for the construction of a section of the new wall between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, February 5, 2019 .. REUTERS / Jose Luis Gonzalezz

This is his first meeting of the year with the 2020 presidential election already in sight. Donald Trump is going Monday night in El Paso Texas: the tenant of the White House intends to advertise the wall for which he says he is ready for a new showdown, a new "shutdown" this weekend. Five days before the deadline of February 15 to break the deadlock with the Democratic leaders meeting in Congress, up to $ 5.7 billion for the construction of a border wall. On the spot, the Democrats are waiting for it.

The barrier in El Paso is for Donald Trump the example to be generalized all along the border. The tenant of the White House had said a few days ago during his speech on the state of the union: " The city had an extremely high rate of violent crime, it is from one of the cities safer of our country. "

False, say his opponents who argue that crime had begun to fall well before. They organize a demonstration at the time of the speech of Donald Trump, a call to meet relayed on his Twitter account by the local charismatic of the State Beto O'Rourke :

" We will face lies and hatred. We will do so with the truth and a vision for the future of the border between the United States and Mexico in El Paso. We are waiting for you from El Paso, from all over the country, if you can, join us. "

Unhappy candidate in the Senate last November, Beto O'Rourke could well enter the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidential election of 2020. A remote arm wrestling so, because Donald Trump does not budge, he wants this wall and wants to repeat it, even in hostile terrain. In mid-term elections, last November the US president had collected in this county, barely 26% of the vote.