The WaPo editorial endorsing the Flake-Gutierrez amnesty (HR 1645) is the usual drivel, but one thing prompted a chuckle. The editorial claims that the bill is not an amnesty in part because it requires illegal aliens to leave the country and then re-enter, “re-booting” their immigration status, as it were. Except that the previous paragraph assures readers that the re-booting (what some supporters are calling a “touchback” provision) is almost completely fake: “The bill would require immigrants here illegally to cross a border and then reenter the country legally — in theory on the same day, or even within hours,” while at the same time “providing waivers for single parents, for instance, and allowing heads of household to ‘reboot’ on behalf of their families.” What’s more, Flake has said that the illegals will be given all their paperwork before they “leave” the country, making the exercise even more meaningless. As another amnesty skeptic observed recently, maybe the illegals will be able to just put one foot and one hand over the border to “re-boot” their status, like in the game Twister. If this is all the amnesty crowd can come up with, I’m not impressed.