It would be one thing if I "heard" it through some anonymous administration official through a drudge story lacking quite a bit of detail.
The problem is, you, I, and everybody else "heard" it from Ridge in a speech he gave at a town hall meeting a few weeks ago down in Florida. I'm pretty sure we all "heard" him say that in regards to illegal aliens, we should "afford them some kind of legal status some way".
There is no point in rehashing that debate though, there are several threads already discussing it (search for illegal immigrants, ridge, etc., it was about a week or two before Christmas).