Nearly one in ten births in 2023 in the United States under the Biden administration came from illegal immigrant parents, according to fresh birthrate data.
The Pew Research Center revealed some 320,000 of the 3.6 million babies born in the U.S. that year were so called “anchor babies” who would not qualify for birthright citizenship if President Donald Trump’s executive order is upheld by the Supreme Court.
Further crunching the numbers, means about 260,000 babies would not have qualified for citizenship under Trump’s executive order.
Digging deeper, Pew found that about 245,000 of those babies were born to mothers who were “unauthorized immigrants” and fathers who were not citizens or lawful permanent residents.
About 15,000 of them were born to mothers who had temporary legal status and fathers who were not citizens or lawful permanent residents.
Looking at the bigger picture, Pew found:
Generally, the trends in
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