It's not like these anchor babies are not contributing, in fact they would contribute a lot.
Anyone who argues this purely from an economic perspective needs to re-evaluate their priorities when it comes to enacting legislation that affects the United States.
There's more to this than economics.
If both sides of this issue were rational people and respected and honored rational agreements, there wouldn't be a problem. I'd even be okay with giving them a path to citizenship.
But the argument for DREAM is that it's cruel to separate these families (consisting of illegal parents and anchor baby college kids). The final analysis of such an argument is that separation of these families is cruel, so we can't deport the parents, either. As such, DREAM is a gateway to Amnesty. Pure and simple.
DREAM is about buying democrat voters. DREAM is about the North American Union. DREAM is about Amnesty. DREAM is about extending entitlements beyond our borders... if some 3rd world mom can sneak into our country and have her child, and hide in our free society long enough, then her kid can have free tuition (on our dime) and/or default on Federally guaranteed loans (also on our dime).
And with no means to prove if an "anchor baby" is actually an anchor baby or is merely a 12-year old that was smuggled into our country with mom last month (remember, illegals have no documentation so there's no way to prove anything with them other than taking them at their word, which is immediately suspect since they're inherently lawbreakers), it opens up DREAM to all children of Mexico whose parents are willing to risk the desert crossing with their kids.
As-is, I don't understand why anyone would go to college if they don't have an SSN/TIN in order to get employed afterwards. You don't have an identity, which makes it impossible to prove that you graduated from anywhere to a potential employer. Current anchor baby college grads have to commit identity fraud to get employed.
I say prosecute them.
And push the rest of this
enlightened class of welfare thieves back to Mexico, where they can use their newfound knowledge to fix their own country.