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.

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...