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Up to 250,000 children born to illegal migrants in 2023: preliminary report

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The debate over birthright citizenship exploded again into national discourse this week President Donald Trump He signed an executive order banning it.

Trump’s ban was scheduled to take effect on February 19, but a federal judge in Seattle on Thursday temporarily blocked the order. Some experts believe that this issue will eventually be settled by the Supreme Court.

If the ban eventually goes into effect, it will likely affect tens of thousands of children born to illegal immigrant parents.

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President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on January 23, 2025. Trump signed an executive order this week that reignites the debate over birthright citizenship. (Yuri Grebas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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The Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit research organization focused on immigration, said Friday that based on its preliminary findings, there would be between 225,000 and 250,000 U.S. births to undocumented immigrants in 2023, accounting for about 7%. Of total births in the United States. United States that year.

To put this number in context, the group says these numbers are greater than the total number of births in all but two individual states.

Moreover, the number of children born to illegal immigrant parents appears to be greater than the number of children born to legal noncitizen parents.

Although not yet available, the group says 2024 numbers are likely to be higher given the significant increase in infection numbers. Illegal immigrants To the country under the Biden administration.

The Center for Immigration Studies says it conducted its latest in-depth research into the births of legal and illegal immigrants in the United States in 2018 based on an analysis of the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). The group says it was using the same methodology in its preliminary 2023 results.

The group says undocumented immigrants are present in census data, but are not explicitly identified by the bureau. Fox News Digital requested numbers from the Census Bureau and Homeland Security but did not immediately receive a response.

The 2018 report found that in 2014, one in five births (791,000) in the United States were to an immigrant mother (legal or illegal). The group said it estimates that legal immigrants represent 12.4% (494,000) of all births and that illegal immigrants represent 7.5% (297,000).

Migrants crossing the border into Texas

An aerial photo shows a group of migrants passing through water and barbed wire and walking to the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on February 1, 2024. (Lukman Vural Ilibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Trump orderedThe bill, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” seeks to clarify the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens and citizens of the United States.” The country in which they reside.

It makes clear that those born to illegal immigrant parents, or those who were here legally but on temporary nonimmigrant visas, are not citizens by birth.

“The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to every person born within the United States,” the order said.

Trump has repeatedly called birthright citizenship “ridiculous” and must stop. The United States is one of about 30 countries where birthright citizenship applies.

The decision by US District Judge John Coughenour, appointed by Ronald Reagan, on Thursday comes in response to four US states – Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington – that filed a lawsuit to block Trump’s executive order, which Trump signed shortly after he was sworn in as president. . .

Coughenour said on Thursday Executive order prohibiting birthright citizenship He told the court it “boggles the mind” and told the court he could not remember in his more than 40 years on the bench ever seeing a case so “blatantly unconstitutional.”

The 14-day restraining order granted by Coughenour will apply to the entire United States

Migrants standing in line at the border

Migrants are processed at the front of the line for entry by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. There has been renewed debate over whether children of illegal immigrants born in the United States are entitled to citizenship. (John Michael Rush/Fox News Digital)

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In the meantime, the administration could ask the federal appeals court in San Francisco to lift the reorganization order and allow implementation for now while the case is heard — a process that could last several months.

A Ministry of Justice A Fox News spokesperson said he would “vigorously defend” President Trump’s executive order that “correctly interprets the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

“We look forward to presenting a fully substantive case to the court and to the American people, who are desperate for our nation’s laws to be enforced.”

Fox News’ Brian Depesch and David Spont contributed to this report

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2025-01-25 15:46:00

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