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Children of Unauthorized Immigrants: By the Numbers

By Carl FranzenAug 11th 2010 – 8:00PM

(Aug. 11) -- In a new report sure to rock the cradle in the debate over whether to tinker with the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 8 percent of all babies born in the United States in 2008 had "unauthorized immigrant parents" -- meaning that their parents were in the country...

Background on birthrate

The birth rate is typically the rate of births in a population over time. Generally, the rate of births in one population is calculated using live birth counts from a universal system of registration of births, deaths, and marriages, and population counts from a census or using estimation through specialized demographic techniques.

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