President Trump has repeatedly proven himself unbeatable on immigration, but why should that stop Democrats and the national media from trying again?

Democratic lawmakers and news reports this week wrongly accused Trump of having described immigrants in general as “animals” when he had actually been referring to violent members of gangs like MS-13.

“You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are," Trump said Wednesday at the White House during a meeting with immigration and law enforcement officials based in California. "These aren’t people. These are animals. And we're taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that's never happened before.”

He had been replying to Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims who had just complained that California law prohibits local police from communicating with federal authorities, even if she knows an illegal immigrant is a gang member.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tweeted in response, “When all of our great-great-grandparents came to America they weren’t ‘animals,’ and these people aren’t either.”

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., called on the officials present for Trump’s remarks to “denounce” him.

And CNBC’s John Harwood, competing for Most Woke White Man of the Year, said on Twitter that “however repugnant their actions, MS-13 gang members are human beings…”

At least Harwood got the context of what Trump said right.

The New York Times and USA Today both published news articles that made it seem as though Trump was disparaging all illegals trying to get into the country.

Democrats and the media have failed to convince the country that Trump is wrong on immigration using policy arguments, and so now they’re just lying about what he says.

This is only the latest incident in a very recent history of Democrats and journalists making complete clowns out of themselves in the immigration debate (insofar as it's a “debate” and not just Jim Acosta pointing to a poem carved in a statue as proof that the U.S. should be flooded with foreigners).

Congressional Democrats shut down the government in February in an attempt to get Trump to extend protections for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals people in exchange for — funding the government!

So confident in their stunt, Schumer caved not even six hours later.

Remember the two pairs of black parents who were invited to the State of the Union by Trump in order to show the country how tragic our immigration system is?

Probably not, because the media effectively ignored Evelyn Rodriguez, Freddy Cuevas, Elizabeth Alvarado, and Robert Mickens, whose teenage daughters were brutally beaten and sliced to death by gang members who had been dumped into their Long Island county by way of our compassionate immigration laws.

Reporters in the White House press briefing room kicked and screamed in August last year when the administration backed a Republican bill that aims to cut immigration in half and prioritize higher-skilled foreigners, two proposals in perfect harmony with what the public wants.

A Harvard-Harris poll released in January said 79 percent of Americans would prefer that immigrants be selected for entry “based on a person’s ability to contribute to America.”

Another majority, 62 percent, said the U.S. should be admitting less than a million immigrants each year. Among those people, most of them said it should be less than a quarter of a million.

Under our current policy, more than a million immigrants are coming into the country each year. In 2016, it was nearly 1.5 million.

It’s no mystery why Trump can’t be beaten on immigration. The American people are on his side of the issue.