I think it's more likely to be a stall tactic than a solution, and what I tend to also suspect is that it's the beginning of a take-it-or-leave-it-guest-worker-program-by-way-of-amnesty-because-the-border-is-just-too-impossible-to-conrol onset.
I honestly think that what's going to next appear is a 'get tough' but not about what most of us think should be gotten tough upon. I realize this is negative thinking but the statements indicating that there is consideration of "solving this once and for all" seems too straightforward for what has up to now been by the Bush Administration a determination to service illegal immigrants (and Mexico, particularly) at the expense of the rest of us.
The new corridor in/out of Mexico and Texas is not the portent of "increased border security" to my view, but easier access for even more illegal aliens.
What they probably have in the works is a "rewriting" as in change in nomenclature as solution: rename "illegal aliens" as "guest workers" and other appeasements.
Otherwise, a border fence in the South should be what they're constructing and should have been many years ago.
I know that many in CA support it and always have. And yet, we vote for increased border security and more, and what do we get but "commeeeoonnIINNNN" from the GOP. As to the Democrats, they're a lost cause about this issue. Most of us really did have hopes that the GOP would represent us on this issue, and it's very disappointing that they have not.