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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The real question should be:
If they had just run through the open sewer just behind them
How come no mud on the children's feet...?
Their license should be taken away for writing this garbage. More from the corrupt full of lies media - FCC must fine them or take their license.
Maybe the children’s “parents” shouldn’t have dragged them all the way up to the US border and stormed the barrier?
Awww, that’s terrible! She should take those children back to wherever where’s there no one chunking smoke bombs at them.
Which of the gang members are their daddies?
Cry me a river!
Tom Perez and the WaPo idiots can pound sand.
You be very foolish forcing your way past guards and military... our President keeps his word and he told you your not getting past our borders.
Where did one of the girls loose her flip flops?
American law is inapplicable to activity in a foreign country otherwise Africa would be depopulated and all would be living in Baltimore or Philadephia
Shooting tear gas at children is not who we are as Americans,” Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, tweeted
For an organization that supports ripping children out of wombs this is a pretty stupid statement!
I don’t believe there was any tear gas when this photo was taken. Look at those standing by the fence and away from the camera. There is no evidence of people reacting to tear gas. This is a set up.
Don't drag your "toddlers" into an attempted border invasion of a foreign country, and the won't get tear-gassed (or worse) by the defenders of that country. That "anguished" female is engaged in a particularly nasty form of child abuse. No sane country wants to import child-abusers.
“Democrats are complicit.”
Democrats are way beyond complicit. This entire thing is a wholly Democrat operation...designed to use their propaganda to bring down the U.S. government and turn it over...to them.
WRONG! A bunch of foreigners attempted an illegal, violent invasion of these United States. They were repelled without loss of life.
Next time, they may well fare worse. If there is a next time. That's up to them ... they could peacefully return home, which they have a positive obligation to do.
“...being financed by an enemy of our US.”
Yeah. The Democrat Party.
Sara McLaughlin music...Sally Struthers sobbingly implores..”just nineteen dollars a month..that’s just sixty cents a day...”
So we’re to believe that this woman marched 2000 miles and is still fat, and her children have been barefoot and in diapers the whole way? Give me a break!
It was a photo-op set up by a democrat or a member of the press. There’s NOT a child in the world who ‘walked’ hundreds of miles without shoes.
The story’s a lie. The Washington Post is a lie. And out here in flyover we know it...
Yeah right - the photo was a set up by a democrat who was hoping a child would be hit by a gas canister and die.... more pity for their commie cause. These liberals are evil - they should not be using children as props... evil ... pure and simple.
No doubt, photoshop is fun!
It’s likely two of Nancy Pelosi’s grandchildren at Laguna Beach California being whisked away by their Honduran housekeeper.lol
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