[SuzyQue]

Bob - while my experience doesn't go back as far as yours (because I haven't been around as long as you), I do actually know quite a bit about the situation on a firsthand basis.

Having said that I do not accept "perceptions" as proof of anything other than that you have perceptions. Unless you can come up with some real evidence that our citizen birthrate is declining, I'll have to reject your statement as only anectdotal.

[spintreebob]

I did not say our citizen birth rate is declining. I was trying to make two points.

1) Some anti-immigrant types make a big deal about anchor babies as if it is a major demographic phenom.

2) The fact is that immigrants have a higher child bearing rate than non-immigrants. There are two reasons for this.
a) More immigrants are in the right age group.
b) Immigrants practice much less abortion, birth control, etc than non-immigrants.