Hillary Clinton caught in shameful lie on family's history

Public census' conflict with Clinton's immigration stories.

As Hillary Clinton continues to shape her platform for presidency, she is reported as boasting her family's immigration history. During one of her first speeches as an official candidate, Clinton said that "all her grandparents had immigrated to the United States," according to BuzzFeed.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Clinton's account of her family's history greatly conflicts with public census records on both her maternal and paternal grandparents.

Clinton has told the story of her grandparents' immigration on more than one occasion. However, only her paternal grandfather, Hugh Rodham Sr. immigrated as a child. All other grandparents were born in the United States.

According to a Clinton spokesman, her grandparents always spoke about their immigrant experiences, causing her to believe they were in fact immigrants.

"I think if we were to just go around this room, there are a lot of immigrant stories. All my grandparents, you know, came over here and you know my grandfather went to work in lace mill in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and worked there until he retired at 65. He started there when he was a teenager and just kept going," Clinton is quoted as saying. "So I sit here and I think well you're talking about the second, third generation. That's me, that's you. And we are saying to all these other people who want the same dreams and the same aspirations and the willingness to work hard just like our families did that no, we're not going to make it easy for you, we're not going to make it legal for you. And I just think that's such a short-term, unfortunate outcome for us and well as for them."

Clinton claims in speeches from last year that her grandmother, Hanna Jones Rodham, immigrated with her family as a young girl to Scranton and went to work very young.

"As has been correctly pointed out, while her grandfather was an immigrant, it appears that Hillary's grandmother was born shortly after her parents and siblings arrived in the U.S. in the early 1880s."

According to the 1910 census, Clinton's paternal grandmother, wife of Hugh Rodham Sr., was born in Pennsylvania in 1882.

In a more readable census record from 1920, you can see again, that Hugh Rodham Sr. was born in England, but the other Rodham's, including Hanna, were born in Pennsylvania.

Once again in the 1930 census, you can see Hugh was born in England, Hanna in Pennsylvania and Hillary's father, Hugh Jr, in Pennsylvania.

According to a 1920 census, Clinton's maternal grandmother Della Howell was born in Illinois in 1902 and was married in 1918 to Edwin Howell, who was also born in Illinois in 1887.

Other records, including Edwin's World War I and World War II draft cards, list his birth place as Illinois.

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