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‘These children are barefoot. In diapers. Choking on tear gas.’ (Mother endangers child for photo)
Washington Post ^ | November 25, 2018 | Tim Elfrink and Fred Barbas

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asylum; border; caravan; invaders; sobstory
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To: FreedomPoster
Those kids were just dressed for the part. 5 minutes outside those kids would've been filthy.

And that fat slob of a mother would break a sweat opening the refrigerator

21 posted on 11/26/2018 5:17:08 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

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.


22 posted on 11/26/2018 5:17:08 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

23 posted on 11/26/2018 5:17:11 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (FreeRepublic.com is the most-used app on my iPhone.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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.

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?

24 posted on 11/26/2018 5:17:28 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

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.


25 posted on 11/26/2018 5:18:27 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: fishtank

Yes, he is. Elfrink and the other author should be ashamed of themselves for writing such risible tripe.


26 posted on 11/26/2018 5:18:51 AM PST by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: humblegunner

For once, we agree.


27 posted on 11/26/2018 5:19:53 AM PST by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: gaijin

She sure is pretty fat to be so poor.


28 posted on 11/26/2018 5:19:58 AM PST by mothball
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

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


29 posted on 11/26/2018 5:20:18 AM PST by bert (to them (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: FreedomPoster

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.


30 posted on 11/26/2018 5:21:17 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

The ComPost and their ilk care far more about illegal children than they do about American children.


31 posted on 11/26/2018 5:22:59 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: FreedomPoster

And why are children that old wearing diapers?


32 posted on 11/26/2018 5:24:38 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned about who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

SOROS PAID!


33 posted on 11/26/2018 5:26:13 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: NativeSon
On that last, we have this:


34 posted on 11/26/2018 5:27:28 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

See my previous post just above.

;-P


35 posted on 11/26/2018 5:28:07 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Too fkn bad Mother us an idiot!


36 posted on 11/26/2018 5:31:12 AM PST by Renegade
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To: Flick Lives

Yeah I noticed those quotes too. They truly can’t help themselves.


37 posted on 11/26/2018 5:32:36 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Honduran mothers with babies in diapers, barefoot in the rocks, etc. may go to the following for making legal application to enter the United States:

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:

38 posted on 11/26/2018 5:34:47 AM PST by John Leland 1789
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To: FreedomPoster

LOL!


39 posted on 11/26/2018 5:36:13 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

“The girls are too old to be in diapers..............

This was a photo stunt, obviously”

Obvious, to us.


40 posted on 11/26/2018 5:42:02 AM PST by moehoward
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