Ben Carson claimed ‘people here illegally’ are keeping Houstonians from public housing. Here’s what he got wrong.

After a Capitol Hill hearing with more than a few minutes devoted to a back-and-forth about whether a California congresswoman was asking about foreclosed properties or Oreo cookies, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson lobbed a tweet at a Houston congresswoman and claimed undocumented immigrants were keeping Houstonians from public housing.

"There are more than 100,000 American citizens waiting for public housing in Houston, TX," Carson tweeted Wednesday night at Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Democrat representing Texas' 29th district. "Do you think they should continue to wait while people here illegally are taking their space?"