While the fence may slow them down, it won't stop the illegals.
And if there is to be a fence, I have supported the fence that the Border Patrol wants, as opposed to the fence that the borderbots want or the fence that border mayors want.
And the fence, however it finally gets built, will have a significant, negative effect on the Texas border economy. And, since I am objective, I will acknowledge that this negative effect is not attributable only to the fence. It is due to the requirement for laser visas already in place, the increased border scrutiny already in place, the fence, and the future requirement on casual border crossers to have a passport.
And the fence, however it finally gets built, will have a significant, negative effect on republicans. First, it will further depict the GOP as extremists. Second, it will affect GOP canditates, including those in statewide races, which is why the GOP's only Mexican lost his seat in the US House last November and why Cornyn and Hutchinson are scrambling to limit the fence.
There is a much broader subject here. And that subject deals with how the GOP would traditionally deal with property rights, water rights, land rights, privatization, socializing costs, and many other related issues. The broadness and complexity of the subject goes beyond casual posting at Free Republic.
Suffice it to say that the subject is like many other subjects in that it is a symbol of the trancendent problem that the GOP faces. These self-annointed "true conservatives"/"cultural populists" are not conservatives at all and are joining with the democrats-liberals-socialists to defeat the conservative agenda.