Are you for closing the anchor baby loophole?
Are you sure your posts shouldn’t have a “/s” tag after them? Are you proposing that we should have a fertility rate that causes us to lose population? What is your ideal population number for the USA? Are you pro-euthanasia? Pro abortion?
My point is if we close the loophole on this anchor baby problem then our population will drop. How low you like to see it drop is what I am curious to know. Americans do not value children like they used to and as a result they are not having them.
It takes you a long time to make your point. I disagree that Americans don't value children and are not having them. Virtually every piece of legislation coming out of either Congress or a state legislature has something attached "for the children" as a means of getting Americans behind it. To say that we don't value children in this country is naive, at best.
The anchor baby loophole only provides babies - they are not a guarantee of more people who WANT to be Americans, just a guarantee that we will HAVE more people who can call themselves Americans. The two are not synonymous.
The future population of America needs to consider if there will be sufficient jobs available to support all of these people. At the current rate that jobs are being outsourced to other countries and with the current unfavorable business climate in America, we currently cannot provide jobs for all of the people that want them and are already here - legal or otherwise!! If we cannot provide useful, productive jobs for these people, they become either an unsustainable burden on those Americans who HAVE jobs, or they become beggers wandering the streets because the welfare safety net will be stretched too thin by those working Americans that they cannot afford them.
Americans having babies for the sake of having babies is a poor strategy. We need to ensure that the future of America can sustain all these babies when they grow up. That means, there have to be meaningful, productive jobs, abundant food, education and the like. Take a long look around you. The education industry is crumbling and deteriorating before our eyes; more and more farmers are being forced out of farming and those that are left are increasingly growing more food that is being raised for ethanol and biofuels than is going to anybody's belly. And, I've addressed the jobs issue.
Based on current trends and recent history, anchor babies, for the most part, are additional drains on the welfare safety net, NOT contributors to maintain it. So, IF we allow these anchor babies to continue to drain the diminishing resources we have, what value (other than they are a human life) do they offer America?? They aren't assets, they are just here.