"I hope you are correct, but I fear it will be a bait-and-switch like the thousands of new BP agents that were approved, but never funded or the current employer fines that are rarely invoked.
I'll believe it when the Feds are stretching the chain link and pouring the concrete, not gassing about "virtual fences" and unmanned drone enforcement without actually doing it."
It's a legitimate fear, and the BorderBots are right to be skeptical.
Again, they need to keep their powder dry. If they get a law proclaiming a fence, that's reason to send in a campaign contribution, but to still condition assisting campaigns and voting on the money being appropriated and the fence starting to be built pronto.
BorderBot. I kinda like it. Just to throw back in the faces of some folks around here used namecalling to attempt to silence conservatives on the issue. :-)
Anyway, until shown differently, my default position is that this is a sell out. I watched what they did with Judges. I watched what happened with Bolton. The Senate has a way of pulling out on an issue we believe won for no good reason other than to cater to the Left.
When I see stakes being driven into the ground then I'll think of helping them out in the fall. I'd like to believe you are right, but this is McCain's Senate after all.