roughly 4 3000 children who have at best one parent had exited the u . s . illegally were raised in the us provinces and are u . s . citizens as a result , up to the research researched by the pew hispanic center . that ' s about three quarters of the anticipated 5 . 5 million children of illegal immigrants inside the american states , according to the study . about 1 . 8 million children of undocumented immigrants reside in poverty , the study concluded .
Three quarters of U.S. illegal immigrants have children.