Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) today quashed the idea that the Gang of Eight bill would strengthen border security. (emphasis added)

Reid said that whatever bill the Senate passes cannot include unreasonable thresholds for immigrants to seek citizenship. Cornyn’s amendment would require 90 percent illegal border apprehension rates and significant investment in border security personnel and infrastructure. But Reid said the Gang of Eight legislation that the Senate is starting from “does not and should not make the path to citizenship contingent on attaining border security goals that are impossible to measure.”

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) has recently said that President Obama will sign an immigration bill by the end of the year. Given Reid’s statement, I don’t think we can expect the bill Obama signs to strengthen border security.