How Eric Adams Has Vindicated Immigration Restrictionism
Posted on AllSides August 15th, 2023
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OPINION
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.
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.
In his desperate pleas for federal help to deal with about 100,000 migrants who have come to New York City...
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