Watch out teabaggers! Report: Illegal population to soar if birthright citizenship repealed

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http://www.ocregister.com/news/citizenship-265554-birthright-states.html

As the debate heats up over automatic citizenship for those born in the U.S., a report released Wednesday states that doing away with birthright citizenship would spark a rise in the population of those who are in the country illegally. Members of the anti-illegal immigration movement contend that ending birthright citizenship for the children of those in the country illegally would reduce illegal immigration to the United States or keep foreigners from overstaying their visas.

However, the report "The Demographic Impact of Repealing Birthright Citizenship" states that eliminating birthright citizenship would not shrink the unauthorized population but likely expand it by 5 million people in the next decade.

The report was co-authored by Jennifer Van Hook at the Population Research Institute Pennsylvania State University and Michael Fix with the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan Washington, D.C., think-tank that studies the movement of people worldwide.

While estimates vary, the report states that about 11 million people live in the country illegally, many who have or plan to give birth to U.S.-born children. "And these children grow up to have children of their own," the report states. "Under a constitutional repeal of the birthright citizenship language of the 14th Amendment or the proposed Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009, these U.S.-born descendents of unauthorized immigrants would be denied legal status in the United States, even though in all likelihood they would be thoroughly American in other respects."
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I realize that teabaggers and the repub base don't read (or need) studies (pandering requires only emotions, not logic), but they can put this in their pipe and smoke it.