Posted on 11/26/2018 5:01:46 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
A little girl from Honduras stares into the camera, her young features contorted in anguish. She’s barefoot, dusty and clad only in a diaper and T-shirt. And she’s just had to run from clouds of choking tear gas fired across the border by U.S. agents. A second photograph, which also circulated widely and rapidly on social media, shows an equally anguished woman frantically trying to drag the same child and a second toddler away from the gas as it spread.
The three were part of a much larger group, perhaps 70 or 80 people,..... pictured in a wider angle image fleeing the tear gas. Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon shot the photos, which provoked outrage and seemed at odds with President Trump’s portrayal of the caravan migrants as “criminals” and “gang members.”
Trump officials said that authorities had to respond with force after hundreds of migrants rushed the border near Tijuana on Sunday, some of them throwing “projectiles” at Customs and Border Protection personnel.
Chaos erupted Sunday around the bustling San Ysidro border crossing, which Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said was closed “to ensure public safety in response to large numbers of migrants seeking to enter the U.S. illegally.”
But Democratic leaders, human rights advocates and others focused on the images of the two children in particular. Many pointed to the children left gagging from the gas attack as evidence that Trump’s push against a caravan of asylum seekers from Central America had gone too far.
“Shooting tear gas at children is not who we are as Americans,” Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, tweeted. “Seeking asylum is not a crime. We must be better than this.”
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Nobody in the picture is “fleeing the gas”. The woman and her kids are not “fleeing the gas, which is behind her and blowing away. Almost all the other people in the picture are posing for various camera people, there are at least 4 groups. Some are just standing back at the fence talking, a few are doing action shots. One is actually doing an action shot running TOWARD the cloud, although it actually appears he’s running toward another camera.
This woman is the only woman in the picture of 70 people, and the kids are the only kids. And the kids don’t seem happy, she is forcibly dragging them in a way that, if you saw a woman doing this in Target, you’d have her arrested for child abuse.
And notice Mom’s Disney shirt.
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I can agree with some of what is being said about this woman and kids, but I’d give her a break on the shirt.
Selling used clothing (or factory seconds) is big business in Honduras. Lots of people buy whatever fits because it’s cheap. Most don’t know or care what the words in English actually say, so there’s little embarrassment. I’ve seen grown men walking around with shirts saying “My Little Pony”, or some such, not having a clue what it meant.
The clothing these people wear is a non-starter.
I don’t think those are her kids. Look at the hair color and skin tones.
I don’t think those are her kids. Look at the hair color and skin tones.
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That was the first thing I noticed, also. They certainly don’t look like typical Hondurans.
Looks to me like she’s stealing a couple of white girls.
She walked 2,500 miles and still has a muffin top?
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