Whatever is being done is, as you say, inadequate. Clinton did things to secure the border too, but we've seen that alone won't solve the problem. If a ship is taking on water, what's the sense in dawdling to repair the leak, while also failing to start the bilge pumps?
The borders will not and can not be anything approaching secure until there are substantial deportations of Illegals from the American interior. Until then we have a de facto Amnesty, and the Illegals know it. Once past the border they're in very little danger of being apprehended. On top of that, President Bush's "no blanket Amnesty" promises reveal, when the ubiquitous "blanket" qualifier is parsed, that he doesn't mind a non-blanket Amnesty. He's already tried a little one, with the attempted Section 245(i) extension. Once an Amnesty is granted, the half-measures currently being taken at the border will be undone.
