Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter grossly misrepresented Pew data, falsely suggesting that 25 percent of Mexico's population has been “taken in” by the United States, creating a false narrative that is spreading through right-wing media. 

During a May 26 interview with Fusion's Jorge Ramos, Coulter alleged that the United States has “taken in one quarter of the entire Mexican population.” 

Coulter doubled-down on her claim while appearing on the May 28 edition of The Sean Hannity Show, citing the Pew Research Center to assert “yeah we already have a quarter, a quarter of the entire Mexican population.” 

Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh parroted Coulter's assertion the same day, claiming “25 percent of the total population of Mexico has already immigrated, not all legal obviously, to the United States.” Rush went on to say “you can trace the demise of California to this.” 

The Pew data Coulter referenced actually includes both “native born” and “foreign born” Hispanics of Mexican origin. Pew's summary of the data explained that “this estimate includes 11.4 million immigrants born in Mexico and 22.3 million born in the U.S. who self-identified as Hispanics of Mexican origin.” 

That means 65 percent of the people Coulter claimed that the United States has “taken in,” were born in this country. 

Using Coulter's flawed logic, if we were to analyze the number of people of Irish descent in the United States, the country has taken in 737 percent of the population of Ireland.