-- by Scott Wong, Politico.com:

Repealing birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment would actually increase illegal immigration rather than decrease it, according to a nonpartisan report.

The Migration Policy Institute says that by denying automatic citizenship to U.S.-born babies of undocumented immigrants, the nation’s illegal immigrant population would grow to 16 million over the next 40 years, an increase of at least 5 million people

“It would be ironic if proposals intended to reduce the undocumented population had the unintended consequences of increasing the undocumented population,” said Michael Fix, MPI’s senior vice president and director of studies, who co-authored the report.

 

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