I’m quite surprised to be admitting this, but I actually agree with Donald Trump on one thing: that ending birthright citizenship can and should be done.

That doesn’t mean I support him for President. I wince when I think of a man who has until recently supported Planned Parenthood and single payer health care being a Republican candidate for President. I would not want a president who said he would “scare the Pope” through threats of ISIS into accepting capitalism.

But he is correct about the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship, despite the hammering by Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday night’s O’Reilly Factor.

https://youtu.be/hlTOhEGp4VM?t=1m15s

O’Reilly continued the argument that anchor baby laws could not be overturned without a Constitutional amendment on Wednesday night’s broadcast, this time with Andrea Tantaros, who had dared to challenge the ever-pompous O’Reilly’s assertion on an earlier program Fox program, Outnumbered. He claimed the correctness of his position by citing a 1985 Supreme Court ruling, INS v. Rios-Pineda, which he claims held that children born in the United States to illegal aliens are granted citizenship.

O’Reilly is wrong, both on INS v. Rios-Pineda and the 14th Amendment automatically conferring citizenship upon anchor babies.