Judging from the rhetoric that is swirling around about the need to change the 14th Amendment, you would think that the number of children born in the United States to mothers living outside the United States would be huge. Why else would a politician even propose changing the U.S. Constitution?
The facts just do not support the notion that it is a huge problem. According to the National Center of Health Statistics, just 7,760 mothers report that they live outside the United States out of more than 4,000,000 U.S. births each year.