The afternoon before Donald Trump’s Tuesday night speech to Congress, Twitter watchers were treated to a flurry of tweets, inspired by comments at the traditional lunch with network anchors, that the president was going to endorse something very much like the “comprehensive” immigration bills that foundered in Congress in 2006, 2007 and 2013.

That was wishful thinking, by people discounting Trump’s constant promises and stuck in the decade-ago mindset that spawned the “comprehensive” legislation, that in Trump’s view would have legalized illegals immediately in return for promises, never to be fulfilled, of tough border and workplace enforcement later.