Nearly One-Quarter Of U.S. Public School Enrollment Could Be Anchor Babies Here’s the math. In April, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that 17 percent of school-age children, or nine million kids, in the United States are children of at least one illegal alien. The New York Times has reported on the estimate. Some of these children are also foreign citizens, while some were born in the United States. Under a longstanding court misinterpretation, being born in the United States currently confers U.S. citizenship. Almost no other developed countries confer citizenship solely by birth location. That’s already one in six kids in the United States who are legally subject to deportation to continue living with their parents. If you also assume that all of this population attends public schools, the percentage is more than 17. That’s because only 80 percent of U.S. kids attend a traditional public school, according to 2024 figures from EdChoice. There were 50 million school-age kids in the United States in 2024, according to ChildStats.gov (adding in the five-year-olds to match the anchor baby age range and assuming there were 4 million of them, an equal age distribution among the 0-5 figure). Eighty percent of 50 is 40, so 40 million of the total 50 million U.S. kids went to public schools in 2024. Nine million anchor babies out of that total 40 million public-school attendees suggests 22.5 percent of U.S. public school enrollment could be anchor babies.
Let's take a look at what the Kaiser Family Foundation report actually stated. Nationwide, about one in six (17%) or 9 million, school-aged children (5 to 17 years old) live in a household with at least one noncitizen adult, who could be impacted by immigration enforcement fears. This share increases to one in three (32%) school-aged children in California and about one in four in Texas (25%), New Jersey (24%), and Nevada (23%). This means it is likely that a high portion of these 17% of households has one parent who is a U.S. citizen. The finding merely indicates that these households have one parent who may be subject to deportation due to not being a citizen under Trump's policies. The finding in no way indicates that this 17% of households have two parents who are not U.S. citizens and the children are "anchor babies".
Let's me state that I do not support birthright citizenship and believe this should be changed via constitutional amendment. However the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is very clear - "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside". This principle has been upheld in multiple court cases including ones by the Supreme Court, such as United States v. Wong Kim Ark. There is no "longstanding court misinterpretation" regarding birthright citizenship in the U.S.
"immigration enforcement fears" doesn't mean illegal. Green card holders are being deported. All non-citizens are impacted by immigration enforcement fears.
Yeh sure. And of those households where one of the parents is a u.s. citizen how many got their citizenship by being born of an illegal? The u.s. citizen parent is just a product of an earlier illegal. And round and round we go. It's a culture of anchor babies. The supreme court and congress need to fix that. No birthright citizenship for illegals.
By definition, if one of your parents are a U.S. citizen at the time you are born then you are not an 'anchor baby".