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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 759860" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://azstarnet.com/news/local/border/article_443330d0-a574-11df-b2bf-001cc4c002e0.html" target="_blank">PHOENIX (Arizona Daily Star)</a> — About&nbsp; one out of every 15 children in the United States was born to a family&nbsp; where at least one parent is in this country illegally, according to a&nbsp; new report today.&nbsp;And four out of five of them are “anchor babies,” the Pew Hispanic Center concluded.&nbsp;The figures, which the organization calculated based on 2009 U.S.&nbsp; Census Bureau estimates, are the best estimates to date of the scope of&nbsp; the issue which has resulted in calls to amend the U.S. Constitution to&nbsp; deny automatic citizenship to children solely by virtue of their birth&nbsp; within this country.&nbsp;That percentage of children of illegal immigrant parents might be increasing.&nbsp;The overall figure is about 6.8 percent of all children 17 and younger have at least one illegal immigrant parent.&nbsp;But the center calculated that about 340,000 of the 4.3 million&nbsp; babies born in the United States in 2008 were offspring of&nbsp; “unauthorized” immigrants. That computes out to 7.9 percent.&nbsp;Researchers peg the number of illegal immigrants in the United States&nbsp; at something slightly in excess of 4 percent of the total population.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 759860, member: 12952"] [URL="http://azstarnet.com/news/local/border/article_443330d0-a574-11df-b2bf-001cc4c002e0.html"]PHOENIX (Arizona Daily Star)[/URL] — [B]About one out of every 15 children in the United States was born to a family where at least one parent is in this country illegally, according to a new report today.[/B] And four out of five of them are “anchor babies,” the Pew Hispanic Center concluded. The figures, which the organization calculated based on 2009 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, are the best estimates to date of the scope of the issue which has resulted in calls to amend the U.S. Constitution to deny automatic citizenship to children solely by virtue of their birth within this country. [B]That percentage of children of illegal immigrant parents might be increasing.[/B] The overall figure is about 6.8 percent of all children 17 and younger have at least one illegal immigrant parent. But the center calculated that about 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 were offspring of “unauthorized” immigrants. That computes out to 7.9 percent. Researchers peg the number of illegal immigrants in the United States at something slightly in excess of 4 percent of the total population. [/QUOTE]

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