There’s no reason for anyone to get excited about the White House’s “new” immigration proposal. If he treats it anything like he treated the nearly identical bill introduced two years ago by Sens. David Perdue, R-Ga., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., President Trump will forget about it 10 days after it’s introduced.

White House officials have been dripping out details on the plan for two weeks, and so far it’s set to look more or less the same as the Perdue-Cotton plan. The main difference is that while that one sharply reduced legal immigration numbers, the White House one, hatched by senior adviser Jared Kushner, maintains the current level.