Exposing The Republican Lie About Immigration

If you listen to the congressional Republicans, you might believe that we are still experiencing a flood of undocumented immigrants into this country -- more than ever before. They claim that President Obama is soft on immigration, and that is causing a new horde of immigrants crossing our southern border.

That is a lie. I have, in the past, shown you proof that President Obama's administration has deported more undocumented immigrants than any other administration (including those of George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan). Now the Pew Research Center shows us that the size of the undocumented immigrant population is not growing in this country. The chart above shows the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. labor force. Note that it grew through most of the Bush administration, but has leveled off and not grown at all during any part of the Obama administration.

And the same is true of the undocumented immigrant population as a whole. In fact, it has slightly decreased. In 2009, there were 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. That has dropped now to 11.2 million. And there is no reason to believe the new executive order issued by the president will affect this at all -- since it applies only to those who are already in this country.

And finally, we have the chart below. It shows the number of K-12 students in U.S. schools has also leveled off, and is in fact, lower now than during the Bush administration.

The upshot of all this is that the Republicans have been lying, and that is shown by the facts. There is no horde of new immigrants flooding into this country because of President Obama's policies. They are just trying to scare voters into supporting their own hard-hearted policies. Don't let them fool you into believing their nonsense.