Births to illegal U.S. immigrants down 20 percent from 2007 peak: Pew
*The numbers prove that birthright citizenship is a non issue. If what the extreme right’s rhetoric denounces are the births of U.S. citizens to undocumented parents, then the trend doesn’t hold the argument. VL
By Suzannah Gonzales, Scott Malone and Leslie Adler, Reuters
The number of children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants has dropped by about 20 percent since its 2007 peak after rising sharply for a quarter-century, the Pew Research Center said on Friday.
[tweet_dis]About 295,000 babies were born to parents who were unauthorized immigrants in 2013, down from 370,000 in 2007[/tweet_dis], Pew said.About 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the U.S. in 2013, making up 4 percent of the population, Pew said. It said their share of total births is higher because the immigrants include a greater share of women in their childbearing years and have higher birthrates than the overall U.S. population.
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