The phony shutdown and its aftermath.

The Dems have jury-rigged government "shut downs" so they are in fact propaganda exercises. First, programs dear to the hearts of Dems are put on autopilot, so they aren't affected. Second, programs dear to Reps (like defense and parks and services) are shut down to showcase the "heartlessness" of the GOP. The Media, of course is cheerleading the process. This process became so choreographed that the GOP became deathly  afraid of opposing Democrats for fear of accruing the ire of the Media/Democrat Party. In came Trump and the Reps fought off the Media. Schumer capitulated.

What do the Democrats want?

The Dems lost the last Presidential election and they feel that this is intolerable. Thus, they want to import enough illegal aliens to fix the outcome of future elections. They say they want to legalize the 700,000 young illegals. But, of course there is a lot more of them that 700,000, more like 4 million. With chain migration, this would turn into 10 million potential Democrats. Why? Because most of them do not speak English and depend on government benefits doled out by the Democrats. Some of them also want to "reconquer" the SW and push us out of there.

The Dems do not care who they have to sell us out to, they just want the votes.

Schumer is working on the next shutdown. The excuse for that is Schumer will no longer will agree to building the wall. So, the GOP either capitulates or the Dems shut down the government.