And the election promises will continue to fall by the wayside.  About the only promise that one could truly count on seeing the Democrats follow up on (besides threats to raises taxes) will be Waxman's promises to investigate anything and everything he can about the Bush administration.  Anything else is just empty words that helped them get back control of the Congress so they can be on their merry way breaking the promises and doing whatever it is that they had wanted to do all along.

On the issue of border security, which will later, in turn, lead to immigration reform (and the inevitable opening of the flood gates to guest worker programs, and general amnesty for illegals that are here already) the Democrats are already talking about revisiting the fence bill and 'tweaking' it in several ways.  The most important way, obviously, is by doing away with anything that would physically stop the flood of illegals that keep coming across the border.

Oh, don't misunderstand, the Democrats will pay lip service to the issue of border security, along with container security, security for rail and ships and other things.  What they won't do is actually implement any effective change.  They'll put in toothless mandates and make promises to use the best technology, training and management and then believe that they've done something to make things better.  As with the minimum wage issue, they'll pander to beliefs among the electorate that they can make things better but they'll wind up not really fixing anything.

Far more likely, they'll liberalize the immigration laws and let in many more illegals who'll come here for the promises of great jobs that pay the newly raised minimum wages.  Many of those illegals will probably come here taking payment under the table at wages that are sub-minimum wage because the employers will threaten anew to turn those that aren't eligible for guest worker programs or amnesty in for deportation.  Even if the threats aren't stated, they'll be implied, and people will take the low wages which still outpace the wages in Mexico and wind up sending money back there to help get even more friends and family across the border.

Yup, new folks in charge, but not much difference in the tunes that are gonna be played.

Original news reference for the comments above (from The Washington Times): Democrats to 'revisit' law creating border fence