Are 340K/year 'Anchor Babies' Too Many?

An estimated 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 were the offspring of unauthorized immigrants, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center. That is probably a low estimate (the Pew Hispanic Center has an agenda), but that's a good enough number to generate the question- is 340K so-called 'anchor babies' a problem that the United States needs to address?

According to wikipedia, an "anchor baby" is a term used to describe a child born in the United States to illegal aliens. It is generally used to describe the supposed role of the child, who as a U.S. citizen through the legal principle of jus soli, may later on facilitate immigration for relatives through family reunification, and hence become an 'anchor' for parents, who can then later become citizens and act as anchors for more family members, and so on.

Before discussing whether 'anchor babies' are 'good' or 'bad', I think it is interesting to first think about whether this is even a problem or not. Do you think that 340K a year is too many 'anchors' or is this not a significant problem facing the United States? Let's not just make this a 'one-year' thing- over 10 years, there will be 3.4 million babies born in the United States who are US citizens but their parents were illegally in the country. Do you think that is problem or not?

How about over the next generation (call it 30 years)- that would mean that in your lifetime, you would see illegal alien parents of 10.2 million babies sneak across the US border, live here illegally (not paying taxes but taking advantage of all of the laws and protections of being a US citizen), have children, raise those children (likely going to public schools even though they are not here legally), and then have those children become adults, petition for citizenship for their parents (who are here anyway, illegally still, since the US doesn't deport anyone), and become reliable voters for anyone who supports these policies? Do you think that is problem or not?

Personally, I think it is probably an issue that should be addressed at some point, but I don't see the Democrats in Congress or our President doing anything about this- they don't want people thinking about citizenship and rights, they want them thinking about what the Democrats can promise to do for them- they are running a thuggish mafia-style government like Mexico's, and they want to keep power by doing it that way.