"I have the oddest feeling that when the border issue loses the Senate because REpublicans stayed home or voted D in "protest", the sense of immediacy regarding it will mysteriously die down...and in the end nothing will get done. Hopefully I'm just being cynical, but if I am right, then we conservatives will have played right into the Democrats' hands."
Then let's not go down that road, and agree to put up a sea-to-sea fence. Then the issue really WILL die down.
Only from the rhetoric parrots.
I'll go along with the border fence of course - I always have. After the lawsuits die down. Environazis and "human rights" types invariably file them and they'll file them this time. However, some portions of the new fence have alreaady been built, so there is no way you're ever gonna hear an honest person propose one exactly as long as the border is.
As long as states and municipalites help enforce the law, the free goodies stopped and we have a way to track immigrants without people screaming "ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING GESTAPO!! IMPEACH BUSH! FROG MARCH ROVE!!".
Only then will the actual issue die begin to die down. We'd best not forget that not every illegal is Mexican.