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The new Pew Hispanic analysis finds that nearly four-in-five (79%) of the 5.1 million children (younger than age 18) of unauthorized immigrants were born in this country and therefore are U.S. citizens. In total, 4 million U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrant parents resided in this country in 2009, alongside 1.1 million foreign-born children of unauthorized immigrant parents.
Figure  | Children with at Least One Unauthorized  | Immigrant Parent, 2009  | Children ages 17 and younger  | Born in the  | United  | Born  | States  | Abroad  | 21%  | 79%  | Source: Pew Survey Hispanic Center estima tes based on March 2009 Current  | Population Survey Hispanic augmented with legal status assignments and corrected for  | Population survey om ssions. See Appen dix B and Passel and Cohn (2009. 2008) for  | methods, assumptions and definitions 