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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And that fat slob of a mother would break a sweat opening the refrigerator
If “mom” doesn’t give a ****, why should we?” Mom being a dumbass invader is not our fault. She should have hired a babysitter instead of a ****ing coyote.
Using quotes for the word projectiles is a propagandistic mechanism to dismiss that they were indeed projectiles.
How many people think the MSM would have such a sanguine response if Trump supporters started throwing "projectiles" at reporters?
Shameless agitprop.
Of course we know from the tiny trickle of real reporting that the caravan is mostly men with the few women and children pushed to the front to suffer for the cameras.
Yes, he is. Elfrink and the other author should be ashamed of themselves for writing such risible tripe.
For once, we agree.
She sure is pretty fat to be so poor.
Felony Child abuse is being condoned by the Ameritrash at the Compost.
Children of any mother captured on our side of the border must be separaated and flown directly to Honduras. The Mother is to be detained by the military with no contact with a lawyer
How did “mama” make a march of 1,000 miles and keep that paunch? 8 weeks of basic combat training made me look like a department store model.
The ComPost and their ilk care far more about illegal children than they do about American children.
And why are children that old wearing diapers?
SOROS PAID!
See my previous post just above.
;-P
Too fkn bad Mother us an idiot!
Yeah I noticed those quotes too. They truly can’t help themselves.
U.S. Embassy: Mexico City
Consulates: TIJUANA. OH~ Even in Tijuana of all palces. Ciudad Juarez Guadalajara Hermosillo Marida Monterrey Nogalas Noevo Loredo
Acapulco Cancun Los Cabos Mazatian Oaxaca Piedras Playa del Carmen Puerto Vallarde San Miguel de Allende Agencies:
LOL!
“The girls are too old to be in diapers..............
This was a photo stunt, obviously”
Obvious, to us.
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