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Glenn Reynolds offers some good advice for lawmakers and the White House the next time they decide to deal with illegal immigration: Earn the people's trust.

(1) Make the process open, transparent, and timely, with hearings, drafts on the Internet, and no last-minute bills that no one has read;

(2) Earn people's trust, don't demand it, and treat enforcement like it matters;

(3) Respect people who follow the law, and make legal immigration easier, cheaper, and simpler, rather than the Kafkaesque nightmare it is now;

(4) Don't feel you have to be "comprehensive" -- address the problems you can deal with first. The trust needed to deal with other problems will come later, after you've shown some success and some good faith.

Good advice.

The GOP can retain the White House and take back Congress if it governs generally along such lines.

Speaking of retaining the White House, Fred Thompson today called the defeat of the amnesty plan "a good day for America." It was that.