Our poverty stats are inflated by 10-20 million illegal immigrants and their children, which also depress wages and increase the unemployment rate for natives.
Deporting them decreases the number of poor in this country, as well as helps everything from the crime rate to the graduation rate.
You’re so right. A lot of the numbers would jump if we didn’t have so many illegals.
It’s not the entire problem, of course. Obama is probably more to blame for many of the other problems as well. The economy would be shifting anyway, but he’s making it harder for ordinary people to move with it.