Did You See Reuters’ Anti-Trump WH Correspondent Get Owned by the Facts on Immigration?

There is an abundance of journalists and reporters — particularly among the pool of White House correspondents — who profess with their mouths to be neutral and objective but reveal through their actions a deep and abiding animus and bias against President Donald Trump.

One of the more glaringly hypocritical among those individuals is Jeff Mason — chief White House correspondent for Reuters who also previously served as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association — a reporter who claims to be unbiased and neutral but routinely provides slanted coverage that portrays the president and his administration in a poor light, whether such coverage has been earned or not.

Mason’s anti-Trump bias was clearly on display Wednesday when he posted on Twitter after a White House briefing on immigration to suggest that Trump had lied about the number of illegal immigrants suspected of residing within the United States.

Mason tweeted, “Trump says, without evidence, there are probably 30-35 million people in the United States illegally.”

Jeff Mason

✔@jeffmason1

Trump says, without evidence, there are probably 30-35 million people in the United States illegally

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Mason’s tweet implied that there was no evidence whatsoever to support Trump’s claim, but in reality there is, which means that Mason is probably either too lazy and sloppy to look up the evidence on his own or is so committed to opposing Trump that he simply “believes” there is no evidence and will ignore anything that runs contrary to that belief.

Those two possibilities were not explicitly mentioned, but aren’t difficult to imply, in a responding tweet from Emily Larsen, a reporter for The Daily Caller, which provided the readily available evidence that supported Trump’s claim.

Emily Larsen@emilyelarsen

Most estimates, based on Census data checked against estimates on lawful immigrants, say there are around 11 million undocumented. But a newish Yale study says it could be as high as 35 million. https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates …
More on population estimates here: http://checkyourfact.com/2018/01/23/fact-check-has-illegal-immigrant-undocumented-population-more-than-doubled-since-2006/ …

Jeff Mason

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Trump says, without evidence, there are probably 30-35 million people in the United States illegally

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Larsen tweeted, “Most estimates, based on Census data checked against estimates on lawful immigrants, say there are around 11 million undocumented. But a newish Yale study says it could be as high as 35 million.” Her tweet included a link to the Yale University study.

Yale Insights reported in September that three researchers affiliated with the university had abandoned the old standard technique of basing guesstimates about the illegal immigrant population off Census reports and surveys and instead devised a mathematical modeling engine that took into account a variety of additional information including demographics and...

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