Immigration Crackdown & Politics: Analysis: US still lacks border strategy

Of course, all of this politicking about "border security" is a diversion from the real issues of the economics of migration and of the illegal drug market created by prohibition. 

The Associated Press: Analysis: US still lacks border strategy: "The federal government hasn't come up with a comprehensive strategy to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, even as an all-out war between Mexico and its violent drug gangs has claimed 35,000 lives and pushed hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the United States.

The U.S. government has spent nearly $4 billion on various approaches, including a $2.4 billion border fence effort, two deployments of National Guard troops to temporarily bolster the Border Patrol, and a now-defunct $1 billion 'virtual fence' that covered 53 miles of the 2,100-mile U.S.-Mexico border until the Obama administration scrapped it earlier this year.

'In spite of an effort to do more, there does not appear to be a plan in place that actually accomplishes the objectives of a secure border,' Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said earlier this month in a speech to the U.S.- Mexico Congressional Border Issues Conference."