Repealing Birthright Citizenship Would Significantly Increase the Size of the U.S. Unauthorized Population
Jennifer Van Hook, Michael Fix, and Julia Gelatt; Migration Policy Institute (May 2025)
New research by the Migration Policy Institute outlines the catastrophic effect that Trump’s Executive Order repealing birthright citizenship would have on immigrant families and children, including stripping citizenship from approximately 255,000 U.S.-born children annually and adding millions to the unauthorized population over the coming decades.
