Tim Carney has a thoughtful post up detailing the competing policy concerns he has surrounding immigration reform, including this one: “Big spending on border control technology will probably be corporate welfare: Of course it will, and so it will be wasteful.”

This was true before Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and John Hoeven, R-N.D., proposed their $38 billion “border surge” amendment to the Schumer-Rubio bill, and it is even more true now that it has been added in. No doubt that hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars will be wasted on useless border security that nobody was calling for before these moderate Republicans needed a fig leaf-security excuse to vote for amnesty.