President Bush surely knows how vigorously his fellow Texans along the state’s 1,254-mile Mexican border oppose a border fence

Bush, who will move back to Texas in less than a year, should instruct Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to call off plans to confiscate Texas land for this boondoggle.

Most recent resistance to these 370 proposed miles of fence came with a class-action suit filed against Chertoff by a coalition of border mayors stretching from El Paso to Brownsville.