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The birthright generation is a term used by immigrant advocates to identify US born citizens protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which grants American citizenship to all born on American soil, and has one or both undocumented parents. Birthright citizenship may be conferred either by ''jus soli'' or ''jus sanguinis''. Under United States law, any person born within the US (including the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands) and subject to its jurisdiction is automatically granted US citizenship. The alternative term is Anchor Baby; a term used by immigration reductionists in the United States to describe a child born in the US to undocumented immigrants. It is generally used as a reference to the supposed role of the child, who as a US citizen through the legal principle of ', may facilitate immigration for relatives through family reunification.Family reunification, or family-based immigration, in the USA is a lengthy process and limited to categories prescribed by provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. This misconception has led those that oppose citizenship rights for children of immigrants, that newborns would facilitate residency and citizenship rights for their parents. However, an American child cannot claim a parent until the age of 21 .〔Dave Bennion (July 28, 2009). "10-Year Bars Split Up Families".〕 ==Statistics== An estimated 340,000 of the 4.3 million newborns in the United States in 2008 were the offspring of undocumented immigrants.〔Pew Research Center. ("Unauthorized immigrants babies born United States citizens" )〕 Undocumented immigrants make up roughly 4% of the adult population in the United States. However, because they are young and have high birthrates, their children make up a larger share of both the newborn population (8%) and the child population (7% of those younger than age 18).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Birthright generation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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