It seems Rep. Reyes has changed his mind in the past few years since being in the Border patrol, before he became a powerful democrat, heading a committee. He used to admit a fence will work!
Rep. Duncan Hunter sat on the subcommittee panel and questioned INS Commissioner Doris Meissner regarding the failure of Operation Gatekeeper, and questioned El Paso Border Patrol sector chief, Silvestre Reyes, on the feasibility of having a triple fence in San Diego. When asked if this type of fence, adequately patrolled by agents, could replicate the same results as Operation Hold the Line in El Paso, Chief Reyes stated that it would.
http://www.house.gov/hunter/border1.html
So, he was 'FOR' border security until it became possible that building it might actually happen?
The now public secret is that since Pelosi had to dump
the impeached Judge Hastings - thus alienating the Black Caucus - she was under pressure from the Hispanic Caucus to choose Reyes. She hasn't been installed as majority leader and already her leadership appears more farcical every day. Remember the "culture of corruption" mantra? Well, it appears we have a new culture growing strongly even before January. Only in America!