Hillary Clinton has told a series of whoppers about her family history in order to appear more sympathetic to immigrants'-rights activists, according to documents that surfaced online Wednesday. Buzzfeed found U.S. Census records and Selective Service documents – draft cards – that establish that three of the former secretary of state's grandparents were born in America. That clashes with what Clinton herself has claimed publicly, including Wednesday afternoon in Norwalk, Iowa. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Clinton claimed on Wednesday that all of her grandparents 'came over' from other countries, but in fact only one was born outside the US . Hillary was participating in a staged 'roundtable' discussion about small business issues in Norwalk, Iowa . 'All my grandparents, you know, came over here,' she said during a small business roundtable event, '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 made the statment to underscore her support for changing the status of milions of illegal immigrants. 'We are turning down people who really want to work,' she said. 'I mean, they are here to work. And a lot of them now have children who are American citizens, and they are doing the best they can to try to make a good life for themselves and their families.' The underpinnings of her personal story, however, seem false. STAGING: Most reporters were kept out of the Capital City Fruit company 'for space reasons' although the warehouse had plenty of room to go around . Both of Clinton’s maternal grandparents, named Della Howell and Edwin Howell, were born in Illinois, according to Buzzfeed's records research. And while her paternal grandfather, Hugh Rodham Sr., immigrated to the U.S, his wife Hanna Jones Rodham was born in Pennsylvania. In a speech last year in Kentucky, Clinton claimed Hanna 'immigrated with her family as a young girl to Scranton [Pennnsylvania] and went to work, very young, in a silk mill.' 'She traced her Methodism back to the Wesley brothers themselves,' Clinton said, 'who converted her great grandparents in the small coal mining villages of Southern Wales.' The Clinton camp quickly acknowledged the accurate Rodham family history. 'As has been correctly pointed out,' a campaign spokesperson told Buzzfeed, '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.' But the insider insisted that Mrs. Clinton had simply believed what her family members had told her. 'Her grandparents always spoke about the immigrant experience and, as a result she has always thought of them as immigrants,' the spokesperson said.
Clinton claimed Wednesday in Iowa that 'all my grandparents came over here' as immigrants .
She said last year that one of her grandmothers immigrated to Pennsylvania and worked in a silk mill .
But Buzzfeed found American Census records showing that only one Clinton grandfather, adn neither of their wives, was born outside the US .
Clinton apparently shaded the truth to seem more authentic with her argument that illegal immigrants should have more legal access to jobs .