From the President himself and his spokepeople.
From the president stating there would not militarize the border.
From the fact they've stated the Guard will be there to observe and essentially listed the duties the Minutemen already perform.
As far as the "Observations", the observations concerned what people who want a secure border desired. I think as a person who demanded action on this, I am qualified to state that "observation" is not what we desired.
We desired the borders fenced/walled from left to right, and right to left. Not pieces of structure. We demanded that talk of amnesty/guest worker be stalled until they secured the border. Not passed in conjunction with their lame carrots ensuring its unlikely our borders will be secured anymore than they were fom the last legislation two decades ago. We wanted strict eomployer sanctions enforced, we've nothing to suggest that'll occur. If they were serious they'd have done it by now with the laws on the book. So, no, it is WRONG to state we got what we wanted.
Wouldn't this be a tremendous waste of resources -- to put a fence where there is no possibility of coming over the border? There is one thing some people are forgetting -- once a government project gets going, nothing stops it. The fence will be there forever. It will become a bottomless barrel of pork that will never end. Let's fence the most vulnerable and porous parts of the border first, then fill in the gaps where it is really needed. It seems to me that the Administration's approach to the fence is the rational one.