Scientific Dictatorship

An estimated 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008—including thousands in Texas—were the offspring of illegal immigrants, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center.

The analysis doesn't offer a state-by-state breakdown.

However, the Dallas Morning News recently reported that 60,000 to 65,000 babies are born each year to the estimated 1.5 million illegal immigrants who live in Texas.

Illegal immigrants make up slightly more than 4 percent of the U.S. adult population, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. But because those immigrants are relatively young and have high birthrates, their children make up a much larger share of both the newborn population (8 percent) and the child population (7 percent of those younger than age 18) in this country.

These figures are based on data from the Census Bureau’s March 2009 Current Population Survey, and are complemented by the Pew Hispanic Center’s analysis of demographic characteristics of the illegal immigrant population.

The Pew Hispanic Center analysis finds that nearly 79 percent of the 5.1 million children (younger than 18) of illegal immigrants were born in this country and, therefore, are U.S. citizens. In total, 4 million U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants lived in this country in 2009, alongside 1.1 million foreign-born children of illegal immigrants...

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