Report reveals up to 250,000 children were born to illegal immigrants in 2023

A new report reveals that up to 250,000 children were born in America to illegal immigrants in the year 2023, alone. 

The report, according to Just the News, comes from the Center for Immigration Studies.

This all comes as President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants residing in the United States.

The order, as we will see, is already facing significant pushback.

Background

The executive order ending birthright citizenship was one of the first that Trump signed after entering the Oval Office. The full order can be found here.

The order, in part, states:

But the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.  The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”  Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through legislation that “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is a national and citizen of the United States at birth, 8 U.S.C. 1401, generally mirroring the Fourteenth Amendment’s text.

To highlight the impact of this executive order, the CIS report reveals that between 225,000 and 250,000 children were born to illegal immigrants residing in the United States during 2023.

Just the News reports:

CIS said it plans to "revise these numbers as we obtain more data" but the group does not expect a "very large upward revision in this 2023 estimate" since the CDC has recorded a "fairly steady number of births in the U.S. during this decade."

Legal fight already underway

Everyone - including Trump and members of his administration - expected this executive order to be challenged in the courts, and this is exactly what is happening.

In fact, a judge has already blocked Trump's executive order calling it "blatantly unconstitutional." The judge, it is worth noting, was an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan.

As stated, though, none of this is any surprise to the Trump administration. They, according to reports, are expecting to take this issue all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Daily Caller reports:

The Department of Justice will vigorously defend President Trump’s EO, which correctly interprets the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. We look forward to presenting a full merits argument to the Court and to the American people, who are desperate to see our Nation’s laws enforced.

The Trump administration says it believes that, at the end of this legal battle, it will prevail.