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Rich Lowry: Yes, America First

Donald Trump's speech in Arizona has occasioned wailing and rending of garments among the commentariat and "respectable" people everywhere. At bottom, the cause of the freakout is simple: Trump believes in immigration laws, and the country's elite really doesn't.

Minus a few trademark excesses that are too ingrained in the Trump shtick to abandon at this point -- e.g., we are going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it -- Trump's speech was rock-solid on policy. The core of it represents what, more or less, any realistic regime of immigration enforcement would look like.

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