Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
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It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.
Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.
There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders.
In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.