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.
In the old days people off the boat wanted to become Americans, to learn proper English (or close to it).
The school systems of Mexico Central and South America, by & large, teach (brainwash) young pupils America is the problem, thus the old respect has disappeared.
Those illegally sneaking across the border, especially from South of the border, only wish to use America, never really having any desire to become real Americans.
Cubanos for the most part, having experienced the horrors of Castro's repressive communist state understand freedom and have no desire to allow the left-wing control over local political races.
The biggest threat stems from al-Qaida terrorist attempting to blend in with other illegal aliens.