That's not accurate.
After 9-11, all of the tradional illegal routes were closed. Nobody anticipated that the illegals would do the end run thru the Sonoran desert or that AZ would become the focal point.
Bush, with the money appropriated by congress, doubled the number of BP agents. Now, many of those BP agents are napping on the job and we have severe shortage of ICE agents
Oh please. He had the ability and the resources to solve the problem. Instead of doing that he patched a few holes, enough to make some people argue that he did something but not enough to get the liberals mad at him.
After 911 Bush had the perfect opportunity to seal the borders in the name of national security. It would have provided him excellent political cover.
Bush, like all presidents since the border became a big problem, failed to solve the problem. Actually, none of them, including Bush ever gave it a serious effort. It is beneath the level of debate on this forum for anyone to suggest otherwise.