Jared Kushner, a confident negotiator, believes that an immigration contract is elusive

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary, however, noted that Kushner was still seen as one of the most effective negotiators in the administration, highlighting his involvement in the criminal justice bill as well as in the new North American trade agreement. "Jared is a key player in the administration and will continue to help the president achieve his top priorities," she said in an email.

But for the moment, Kushner seems to have few allies, occupying what his relatives describe as a dead end.

Mr. Kushner finds himself without much influence on the Democrats, who consider the substantial changes that the White House proposes to continue to offer asylum seekers such as poison pills. And the Conservatives are not convinced that Mr. Kushner is the right person to negotiate an agreement. They acknowledge that he has the ear of Mr. Trump, but fear that he does not understand the flaws in the debate nor the proposals likely to provoke Mr Trump's anger. A proposal was examined that would give green cards to 700,000 undocumented immigrant youth, rabid conservatives.

In the White House, several collaborators said: Mr. Kushner is not interested in differing opinions of his own and tends to view people disagreeing with him as a problem, putting them in the wrong position. away from the discussions. Individuals close to Mr. Kushner, however, who requested anonymity, described him as working well with his colleagues from the West Wing, particularly the Director of Legislative Affairs, Shahira Knight, a veteran of Capitol Hill.

However, even Mr. Kushner's allies admit that, with respect to immigration, he did not grasp the emotional nature of the fight he led in the way he tackled the redesign of the criminal justice, a personal issue because of his father's incarceration.

According to Kushner, the $ 5.7 billion request for money from the Border Wall is reasonable, and compared it to a month of deploying troops in Afghanistan. He considers Ms. Pelosi a "trophy hunt" or an attempt to politically dismiss the president with the closure.