Children In Immigrant Parents

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Approximately one out of every four children in the United States, live with at least one immigrant parents. The majority of them, about 86 percent, are U.S. citizen by birth; another 2 percent have gained citizenship status through the naturalization process. The remaining 12 percent children in immigrant families, who represent approximately 3 percent of all child population, are foreign-born and noncitizen. Although citizen children living in immigrant families are eligible for public health insurance coverage in a manner similar to the U.S.-born children of native parents, the disparities in health insurance coverage between children of immigrants and children of natives remain substantial. For example, in 2008, about 12 percent of low-income