Politifact Calls Ann a Liar When She Said 1/4 of Mexico Is in America

    After Ann said (during this interview) that America has taken in one quarter of Mexico's population, Joe Greenberg (writing for Politifact) said Ann's claim was false.

    Greenberg explained that Americans of Mexican descent are not the same as immigrants, but Ann wasn't even talking about that. She was talking about the 30+ million illegal immigrants. Greenberg/Politifact said, that according to the Pew Research Center, there are only 11+ million illegal immigrants in America.

    Ann had already addressed the fact that Pew had gotten the numbers from the Census, which was wrong. Here is basically (not actually) what happened:

    Ann: The Census says 11 million, but it's wrong. There's really 30 million.

    Greenberg/Politifact: Well, according to Pew, it's 11.

    Ann: Pew got the numbers from the Census.

    Greenberg/Politifact: Aha! That's proof you're wrong!


UPDATE: VDARE published James Fulford's piece (on Thursday, June 11, 2015, at 8:19pm) that gives another perspective on the topic. Politifact said most "Mexican-Americans" are US citizens who have never been to Mexico, hence the US cannot have taken in 25% of Mexico's population. Fulford looks at it this way:

"But they are Mexican. They say they’re Mexican, and the Government of Mexico thinks they’re Mexican. Many of the Mexicans born in the US are born to Mexican parents who are citizens of Mexico, and they can go to Mexico and claim citizenship there if they want."