In an editorial, the New York Times comes out against a government program that helps Cuban doctors defect to the United States when they are working abroad. I find the whole thing to be lunatic, so I won’t spend a lot of time recounting their argument. Go read it yourself. What I find astounding however is the disconnect with the Times’ views on immigration in every other realm of American policy. They have no problem with low skilled illegal immigrants coming to the US at a time when there’s a surplus of low-skilled workers and a shortage of low-skilled jobs. They have no problem (and I don’t either) with the brain drain our immigration policies cause among high-skilled and high-tech workers from every other country in the world — except for Cuba. Only Communist Cuba’s problems deserve redress by a change in American policy.