even though you are for legal immigration. tucker: you re attacking their f housekeeper, they ve imported an entire serf class and they resent any effort to restrain it. most of us grew up learning that the american constitution guarantees birthrightt citizenship. anybody born in this country even to parents who are here illegally or on vacation is a u.s. citizen and all of the benefits of that for life. is that what the constitution says? michael antone does not believe it says that. lecturer at hillsdale college and he wrote a piece in washington post arguing that birthright citizenship is not a constitutionalal requirement. i m amazed the post printed this piece, people were shocked at the idea that you would even question this but you made your case partly on legal grounds. why does the constitution not say what we ve been taught that
frankly a terrorist organization of its own. tucker: williams is a councilman running for the attorney government for new york state and could share a ticket potentially with cynthia nixon and joins us tonight for the special. thank you for coming on. i appreciate it. thank you for having me. tucker: let s start with being honest about one thing i think that michael antone is right about. most of time we talk about immigration we have a religious debate about who is the good or bad person. so if we could for the next four minutes keep it to policy. tell me how more immigrants bringing in your neighborhood, i think it s eat flash bush in new york, helps the people who already live there? the people already there and citizens how are they helped by it? i m proud to be the son of immigrants or my constituents are past immigrants. that is the wrong question. the question to be asking is why do we use overwhelming force, resources and draconian
tucker: is a councilman running for the attorney government for new york state and could share a ticket potentially with cynthia nixon and joins us tonight for the special. thank you for coming on. i appreciate it. thank you for having me. tucker: let s start with being honest about one thing i think that michael antone is right about. most of time we talk about immigration we have a religious debate about who is the good or bad person. so if we could for the next four minutes keep it to policy.re tell me how more immigrants bringing in your neighborhood,ur i think it s east flatbush in new york, helps the people who already live there? the people already there and citizens how are they helped by it? i m proud to be the son of immigrants or my constituentso are past immigrants. that is the wrong question. the question to be asking is why do we use overwhelming force, resources and draconian measures to rip up families for an issue that at best is
population to fill the jobs. we welcomed a lot of immigrants in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. there is a rationale for that at those times. what is the rationale now? filling up the land doesn t hold anymore. the frontier was declared closed by the federal government in the late 1800s. so i mean tucker: i mean, i think you are asking the most basic question that nobody asks and i m glad that you did and i hope that your piece today sets off a national conversation on the subject. michael, thank you for joining us. thanks a lot. tucker: instead of encouraging that conversation, which is important, i think, democratic politicians are now pushing the rhetoric getting more extreme by the day. new york gubernatorial candidate cynthia nixon declared lately that i.c.e. is a terrorist organization. i.c.e. has strayed so far from its mission. it s supposed to be here to keep americans safe. but what it has turned into is
showed up at her home. but zoom out for a moment. why exactly does america need more immigration? everybody says it does. but do we really? does more immigration help ordinary americans? does it improve the country? or does it just enrich an elite class, the policy making class at the expense of everyone else? very few people are asking that question. but one who is, is michael antone who just wrote a piece in the washington post saying why do we need more people anyway? that is a good question so we are kicking off tonight s special with him. thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. tucker: i m glad you asked this. do we need a there of a million new people in america every year? what was your conclusion? my conclusions let s look at the answers that people give for why and exam them. they don t bear examination. reason number one is we need