A Pew Hispanic Center study released Wednesday shows that 8 percent of babies born in the United States has parents who are not legal citizens.
Nearly one of four children born in the United States in 2008 had parents who were immigrants, the Pew study found. Of those, 16 percent of the parents were legal and 8 percent were illegal.
The estimated 340,000 out of 4.3 million babies born in America get automatic citizenship which allows their parents to live in the country, making them so-called “anchor babies.”
Under the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the child may sponsor other family members for entry into the United States when he or she reaches the age of 21.
The study goes on to show that 79 percent of the 5.1 million children of illegal immigrants in the United States are anchor babies.
More than three-fourths of all illegals in the United States in March 2009 were Latinos, the study shows, with nearly one of every four children under age 18 in the nation was a Hispanic.
Source: CNN
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Thank you Teddy from Chappaquiddick.
I am disgusted at Olbermann going on about “Repealing the 14th amendment” – obviously part of their little plan to cry Racism, when the real issue is that the INTENT of the amendment was NOT to allow Osama and his wives to sneak across the Arizona Border so that Osama Junior would be granted US Citizenship automatically, just because some idiot judge never considered that some people would do that. It is not the purpose of ANY amendment to condone or reward criminal behavior. All the Supreme Court needs to do is clarify the obvious, or congress could do that. That would be interesting because we will see who is FOR Osama’s kid getting citizenship versus those who are AGAINST it.
I guess I have different definition of “anchor baby”. My count is around 75% these days.
Let’s be careful about “lies, damn lies, and statistics” here. That Pew report says those 340,000 have “at least one undocumented parent”. Are we going to deny citizenship to a child for only being half American? It also doesn’t accurately say how many of these kids are being born to people who have been here a while. I’d say an anchor baby would be a child of an illegal who came here pregnant or got pregnant shortly after they got here and I haven’t seen an accurate number on that yet. Also remember only 4,000 hardship exemptions per year are given out and a child cant sponsor their parent until they are 21.