Dispelling "Anchor Baby" Myths

Very few babies are born here of mothers who came here for just a short time to have the babies and then returned to their own countries. Almost all babies of immigrants are born after their mothers have been here a year or more. - - Donna Poisl

Posted by KATE PICKERT

The Pew Hispanic Center, which conducts stellar research on everything from health care to religion, released a report today quantifying just how many children are born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. The report comes in the midst of a campaign by some Republicans to hold congressional hearings on whether children born to illegal immigrants should automatically become citizens.

According to the Pew report, 340,000 babies were born in the U.S. in 2008 to at least one undocumented parent. And of all the children of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., about 80% were born here - the rest were born abroad.
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