This is amazing news, if Chertoff really means it. Though I still think that “attrition” — that is, cutting down work opportunities for illegals, via employer sanctions and employee verification, so that the illegals drift back home voluntarily — should be a key component of our policy.

The fact that we contradict ourselves, at any rate under Republican administrations, in the matter of Cuban refugees, does not bother me a bit.

I like the Kissinger Principle: any thing that ticks off Castro is fine with me, even if it involves us in some minor inconsistencies and

inconveniencies.