Resolved: Birthright citizenship should be abolished in the United States.

As many people have been telling me that I need to start doing online debates to prove that I am capable of coaching, I will take that advice and challenge the community to this topic. I will take the side of the pro, here is my constructive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“I believe giving citizenship based merely on where you are born is bad public policy. Citizenship is more than that; it is about our proud history, common standards, and willingness to uphold our ideals.” It is because I agree with the words of Congressman Tom Tancredo that I feel compelled to affirm today's resolution: Resolved: Birthright citizenship should be abolished in the United States.Definitions for this case are offered for clarity. If you object to any of these definitions, you will need to do so in round 1, otherwise mine will be used by default. Birthright Citizenship: is when citizenship can be recognized to any individual born in the territory of the related state. (USlegal.com)Abolished: is to formally put an end to something (google dictionary)My case is upheld by three contentions and are as follows:First: Anchor Babies And Their Families Possess Large Advantages At The United States’ ExpenseSecond: Historical Evidence Shows That The Fourteenth Amendment Has Been Severely PervertedThird: We Can Safely Abolish The Law Of Birthright By Adopting European Ideas----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I will now elaborate upon my first area of analysis:Representative Daryl Metcalfe, who founded a national group of legislators critical of illegal immigration, said that “the fourteenth amendment greatly incentives foreign invaders to violate our border and our laws.” That is true. The advantages of a birthright citizenship are immense. The babies get medicaid, temporary and immediate assistance to needy families and food stamps, schooling, and other welfares. The rights do not end when the child turns 18. Because there’s a little thing in the United States called the Chain Immigration Policy. This policy says that as soon as the child becomes an adult, he can bring his mother and father, his spouse, his brothers and sister, his aunts, his uncles, his grandparents, nephews and his nieces into the United States. And according to this same policy, once they come into the United States, they all can bring in their own extended family. Does all of this not sound like a reward? “Granting birthright citizenship to children of illegal immigrants rewards those who have recklessly broken our nation’s laws.” (representative Gary Miller) “We are a uniquely humane and generous country, but very few people who understand the real costs would endorse these expenditures. It has little to do with the fact that they are foreigners and it has little to do with the color of their skin. It has everything to do with them being here illegally, and, while we are a humane country, we are also a country of laws. Illegal aliens, by definition, are not following the process and are not abiding by our laws.” (Bruce Bialosky) Not only are these illegal acts being rewarded, but they are being rewarded at the United State’s expense. According to the P.E.W. research center, In 2008, Eight percent of all babies born in U.S. hospitals had mothers who were illegal aliens. Because their parents are poor, the families contribute little in taxes, while at the same time, rely heavily on governmental services. Consider this excerpt from OfficialWire. “To give you a rough estimate of the costs, an average birth in a U.S. hospital is $8,800.00. And that’s without complications. A kindergarten through twelfth grade education is $9,644.00 per year, per child. Breakfast/lunch provided to anchor babies is $5.00 per meal. The bare minimum total cost to U.S. taxpayers for one child to age 18 is $218,792.00. The bare minimum total cost to U.S. taxpayers for 400,000 anchor babies, which is the estimated amount born per year, is roughly an annual $87.5 billion dollars. Birthright citizenship must be abolished. I will now elaborate upon my second area of analysis:To give you all a brief timeline in U.S. history, I’d like to present my second contention with the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation was passed in the year 1863. Now, the whole reason the Citizenship Clause was written by Senator Jacob Howard of Michigan in 1866 was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying the privileges of citizens of the United States, which is depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any citizen within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Howard did not propose this amendment so that several years into the future, immigrants could illegally trespass onto U.S. soil and have their children, which are immediately granted the same rights as fair citizens. This is proven by the author of the fourteenth amendment himself, who is noted to say in a debate over the matter, and I quote, “this will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States.” (www.14thamendment.us, among other places) The fourteenth amendment has been taken advantage of. The spirit of the law is being broken and this is a disgrace to the author and the meaning of citizenship in the United States. The most appropriate approach for solving this cheat of the system is to amend the fourteenth amendment so it is clearer to Howard’s intentions, which will abolish the birthright law as it has been perverted.I will now elaborate upon my third area of analysis: As I stated in my second contention, something must be done regarding the exploitation of an accidentally vague document. America is one of the very few advanced countries who still apply the birthright policy. The most reasonable method of action would be to abolish birthright citizenship and replace it based on laws used by the United Kingdom. UK citizenship laws say that a child born of the soil can enjoy citizenship as long as he has at least one parent who is also a citizen. This will be the solvent of all the issues given by a birthright citizenship while still holding on to the good qualities it may provide. People will still be able to apply for citizenship of the United States, however, they will have to wait their turn for a naturalization test the fair way, which means that instead of being bumped up to the front of the line because of an anchor baby, they will wait out their time just like our laws intended. This is a just law and will be of great advantage to our nation. To gain much overdue beneficial structure for the U.S., we must abolish our current birthright laws and adopt the laws of the Europeans.I am now open to a rebuttal from my opponent.