birthright citizenship should be abolished in the U.S.

I know the Pro's wall of text may look scary, let me summarize it - 1 - Illegal babies are harmful to the economy - 2 - Its hypocritical - 3 - Other countries dont have this right - 4 - It promotes racism. 1) The economyThe Pro is placing his entire economical argument only on the basis that illegal children drag down the economy, however he has not taken into account that the parents of those children do pay taxes, often for services they dont even use, and that those children do grow up to be taxpayers since they are legal citizens because of the birthright citizenship. " Yet the consensus among most economists is that immigration, both legal and illegal, provides a small net boost to the economy. Immigrants provide cheap labor, lower the prices of everything from produce to new homes, and leave consumers with a little more money in their pockets"http://www.thedailybeast.com..."The money that illegal immigrants spend on goods and services in their local communities and around the state "reverberates throughout the whole economy, creates more jobs, more spending and more revenue," he said. "The scale of economic benefit far outweighs any costs on the fiscal side." "http://www.southcoasttoday.com..."Since they pay payroll taxes, they're helping to bankroll Social Security and Medicare but won't get to participate in the programs because of their immigration status." http://www.ggu.edu..."All undocumented immigrants pay sales and property taxes, and—contrary to popular belief—most pay federal and state income taxes as well, even though they're not eligible for Social Security, Medicare, or the many other programs their tax dollars help fund"http://teacher.scholastic.com..."even Sum would concede that the U.S. economy is larger, and growing faster, due to the supply of illegal immigrants, and that most Americans with higher job skills are better off for their presence"http://money.cnn.com..."Immigration is good for the financial health of Social Security because more workers mean more tax revenue. Illegal immigration, it turns out, is even better than legal immigration"http://www.nytimes.com..."There is little doubt that unauthorized -- that is, illegal -- immigration has made a significant contribution to the growth of our economy,’’ http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com..."The contributions by unauthorized immigrants to Social Security -- essentially, to the retirement income of everyday Americans -- are much larger than previously known, raising questions about the efforts in many states and among Republicans in Congress to force these workers out."http://www.washingtonpost.com..."That finding... suggests that neither side of the immigration issue has a strong economic argument to make..."http://immigration.procon.org..." Some believe that undocumented immigrants benefit from federal programs such as food stamps, Medicaid, SCHIP, and welfare. In fact, undocumented immigrants are ineligible to receive these benefits; anyone seeking to obtain them must provide proof of legal status"http://mediamattersaction.org..."A stunning two-thirds of illegal immigrants pay Medicare, Social Security and personal income taxes"http://reason.org..."Here’s what you get when you get the Mexicans to leave: Rotting crops, businesses closing, concerned police, children missing school. And, of course, families torn apart. This is what we’re seeing in Alabama, which this month began enforcing the most rigorous immigration law in the country"http://obsprimary.blogspot.com...The truth of the matter is, it is not entirely proven that illegal immigrants harm the economy since the complete economic influence illegal immigrants have on the economy is very complex. However, economic experts do argue that illegal immigrants do provide enough of a benefit to the economy to have a rather neutral impact on it overall. That being said we should not abolish a long treasured birthright citizenship on the grounds that anchor babies drag down the economy when after years and years of studies experts mostly agree that illegal immigration does NOT harm the economy overall....On another note, nations that do abolish birthright citizenship have seen economic setbacks almost immediately, including Germany, Japan, and Israel. Abolishing birthright citizenship would really hurt the economy. http://articles.latimes.com...2) Hypocritical"Citizenship by birth lacks legitimacy because the person did nothing to earn the citizenship"When did we have to earn our rights? Our forefathers and ancestors fought tooth and nail to give us these rights that you and I take for granted right now, why should we make it so that every generation has to fight for the same thing over and over and over??? If we have to earn citizenship maybe we should all have to earn all of our other rights too, maybe the Pro thinks we should have to earn our right to free speech or earn the right to bear arms or earn something that our ancestors already sacrificed to give us. The Declaration of Independence itself states that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"..... It certainly does not say anything about people having to earn their right to life, to have to earn their right to liberty, or to earn their right to pursue happiness. http://www.ushistory.org...3) Other countries dont have birthright citizenshipJust because other countries dont do something, it doesnt mean the US shouldnt do it either. Countries that dont have birthright citizenship include most of socialist Europe, North Korea, China, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc. Do we want to abolish rights that have been around since the Civil War just because Iran and North Korea doesnt honor those rights either? Hell no. Other countries dont have freedom of speech or the right to protest, should we as a country also abolish our beloved rights just to blend in with the rest of the world? (most of which is in pretty bad shape too)http://worldimmigrationguide.net...We shouldnt get rid of our rights just to blend in to society, it is our rights that make us unique.4) RacismThis one doesn't even make sense, the Pro is blaming racism on the people who are just living their normal lives rather than on the people who are being racist and treating people bad. Thats like blaming racism on a Mexican for being Mexican instead of blaming the guy whose being racist towards the Mexican who did nothing wrong to begin with...