Tucker Carlson tonight defended President Donald Trump on the issue of birthright citizenship and criticized Speaker Paul Ryan for saying Trump “obviously” can’t end it with an executive order.

“Consider the question of birthright citizenship,” Carlson said. “Under current interpretations of American law, anyone born on our soil automatically becomes a U.S. Citizen. Context is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if your parents were tourists or illegal aliens or foreign saboteurs, if their plane was forced down to refuel and you emerged. It doesn’t matter. If you were born on our property, you are a citizen.”

He called out Ryan as he said that Washington is “lecturing the rest of us” on this being unconstitutional.

He played the audio of Ryan saying “You obviously cannot do that. You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order,” before mockingly saying, “Obviously, obviously.”

“Note the phrasing,” he said. “‘Obviously.’ That’s what people say when they don’t feel like making a rational case for their positions, usually because they can’t. Is it really ‘obvious’ that the Constitution requires us to give citizenship to the children of illegal aliens? Paul Ryan has no idea, he just doesn’t want to have a conversation about it. He wants you to be quiet.”

Carlson brought up past comments from Harry Reid on this topic and said the questions raised are legitimate:

“Is birthright citizenship helping this country or is it hurting this country? Under our current system, illegal immigrants who come to the U.S. and have children are eligible to receive tax credits, food stamps, other welfare benefits. Those are huge incentives. Not surprisingly, one in every 12 births in this country right now is someone here illegally.”

Axios, which exclusively reported on the comments Trump made to them, says in its report that Trump’s ability to do this executive action is “debatable, to say the least.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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