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About 295,000 ba­bies were born to un­au­thor­ized-im­mig­rant par­ents in 2013, mak­ing up 8 per­cent of the 3.9 mil­lion U.S. births that year, ac­cord­ing to a new, pre­lim­in­ary Pew Re­search Cen­ter es­tim­ate based on the latest avail­able fed­er­al gov­ern­ment data. This was a de­cline from a peak of 370,000 in 2007. […]

On the 2016 campaign trail, immigration has been a flash point unlike any other. But as Donald Trump pushes his scheme to build a wall across America’s southern border and Hillary Clinton promises to go further than President Obama in protecting migrants without documentation, a major immigration reform a half-century […]