How Eric Adams Has Vindicated Immigration Restrictionism

All that it has taken to explode the lazy clichés that defined the progressive position on the issue is a heavy flow of illegal immigration.

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New York City mayor Eric Adams sits with New York governor Kathy Hochul at an event at the City Hall in New York City, July 31, 2023.

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The public intellectual Irving Kristol famously said that the definition of a neoconservative is “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.”

By the same token, the definition of a convert to immigration restrictionism is a big-city mayor dealing with a surge of illegal immigration in his city.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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