And that has to come first. Not simultaneously. And it will take more than 6,000 part time NG troops in support roles to significantly improve security along a 2,000 mile border.
The simultaneous implementation of a guest-worker program will undermine the efforts to secure the border by encouraging even more illegals to flood across. It also makes it clear that the security measures are just window dressing. The real message is "welcome illegals".
Everyone, including Bush, understands that 6K troops will not seal the border. A 100,000 strong force would not be enough! They will simply go around it.
This is why the interior and ways of reducing the pressures are required to take some of the pressure off the border so that we need not put all our resourses in that endeavor and we have some left to deal with the implementation of screening and documentation for those who are here already.
We have finite resources to apply to this, and it must be done quickly and effectively.
It's like dealing with a fire ant problem. If the neighbors don't treat their property, the fire ants simply relocate. We have to deal with this along a broad spectrum of individual problems. All of it together will defeat anything we put on the border if we don't address it all.
Worse than that, the States and localities will refuse to participate, if they perceive they are being hurt by the Fed actions. Everyone has to participate or it all goes down the drain, as in 1986.