Homeland security doesn't care what Cameron County thinks.

Homeland security cares about creating an issue to get the bigoted Republican base out to vote in 2008. Nothing, and I mean nothing, else matters. It's that simple.

Cameron County Commissioners are expected to approve a resolution today that offers an “alternative solution” to the proposed border fence, though the measure could prove useless.

Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff gave Texas landowners 30 days to allow federal surveyors on their land or face legal action, an indication that the construction of a border fence is imminent.

County Judge Carlos H. Cascos has long proposed the federal government enhance the Rio Grande Valley’s levee system as an alternative to the border fence. He has not given up hope that a solution could be found that would be viable to both sides.

“Until they lay that first slab of concrete it’s never too late,” Cascos said.