File this story under the heading "Things we find puzzling." Ed Driscoll who posts at Instapundit has a map from the CDC Wonder website which shows births to foreign-born women in each state increasing or decreasing.
With current efforts to get those in country illegally to self-deport plus actual deportations, the overall national birth rate for foreign-born mothers is down 3%, and down somewhat in 41 states. In four states (NY, VA, NM, TX) it declined by 10% or more.
A few states experienced increases in such births, most of them in the far north - examples: AK, ND, ME, VT, NH, MA, plus WA and MT to a lesser extent. What is there about these northern tier states that attracts pregnant foreign-born women?
Do Canadian women cross the border to give birth and, until the change becomes official, get their children US citizenship? I admit to being puzzled by this geographic clustering.
