Posted on 06/21/2018 11:54:05 PM PDT by DouglasKC
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Honduran toddler pictured sobbing in a pink jacket before U.S. President Donald Trump on an upcoming cover of Time magazine was not separated from her mother at the U.S. border, according to a man who says he is the girl's father.
The powerful original photograph, taken at the scene of a border detention by Getty Images photographer John Moore, became one of the iconic images in the flurry of media coverage about the separation of families by the Trump administration.
Dozens of newspapers and magazines around the globe published the picture, swelling the tide of outrage that pushed Trump to back down Wednesday and say families would no longer be separated.
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Valera said the little girl and her mother, Sandra Sanchez, have been detained together in the Texas border town of McAllen, where Sanchez has applied for asylum, and they were not separated after being detained near the border.
Honduran deputy foreign minister Nelly Jerez confirmed Valera's version of events.
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The photo was used on a Facebook fundraiser that drew more than $17 million dollars in donations from close to half a million people for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides legal defense services to immigrants and refugees.
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Sanchez and her daughter had left Puerto Cortes, a major Honduran port north of the capital city, Tegucigalpa, without telling Valera or the couple's three other children, he said.
He said he imagined that Sanchez left with the little girl for the United States, where she has family, in search of better economic opportunities.
"If they are deported, that is OK as long as they do not leave the child without her mother," Valera said. "I am waiting to see what happens with them."
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Loathe does not begin to describe how I feel about the Leftstream media.
Facts don’t matter to democrats. It’s all in the emotion and imagery.
that there is FU Funny, that is...
I remember when the NY Times was known as
'All the News that is fit to print' and morphed into
All that fits (our screwed up agenda)
Hmmmm, Korean War potentially ending or fake issue with fake crying kid.....
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
Can’t wait to tell the neighbor his precious TIME magazine has lied to him again.
So the crying girl was another fake news story? Go figure. It’s unfortunate that someone isn’t being fired. They obviously didn’t do any journalist investigation on the matter.
‘I don’t have any resentment for my wife, but I do think it was irresponsible of her to take the baby with her in her arms because we don’t know what could happen.’
Okay, maybe we could trade this guy and his family for a few f**tard leftest citizens. He actually has common sense.
In other words, the wife kidnapped a daughter and abandoned her husband and other children in Honduras. Oops.
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Kidnapper, child traffickers.
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