Justice Brett Kavanaugh sounded like a fired-up prosecutor last year as he shot off a withering series of nuts-and-bolts questions about how President Donald Trump would carry out his plan to rewrite of the way birthright citizenship has been understood in the United States for more than a century.
I just looked up the actual numbers and the highest estimate I could find was that there could be about 70,000 babies born to parents on temporary visas each year (Center for Immigration Studies). Other figures suggested around 10,000 at most but I picked the biggest one to make a point:
It doesn’t fucking matter.
70,000 births a year in a nation that has 3.5 million births/year is nothing. That’s 2% so I’m going to reiterate that nobody should care. It’s a stupidly small figure that is of zero consequence.
The only negative connotation one could derive from this figure is founded in racism.