About 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 — or 8 percent — had at least one parent who was an illegal immigrant, according to a study published Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group in Washington.

There are lies, damn lies, and there are statistics.

Here is the lie:

“They come here to drop a child,” Mr. Graham said.

This conclusion is not supported by a study which shows:

More than half (of mothers in the country illegally) had been in the country for five years or more.

But drawing any conclusion from the study is impossible because:

Some researchers noted that the Pew figures did not identify families where both parents were illegal immigrants.

Come on! You obviously had that data! How many of those 8% have at least one parent who is American? Don't you think that data point is relevant to the ensuing policy discussion you desired the study to provoke!?

Nonpartisan my ass.

Lying with numbers