The following was published, in part, by the BBC today.
"A little girl who became the public face of US migrant family separations was not taken away from her mother at the US border, says her father."
For the full story follow this link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44578339
"Time magazine has used the image for its latest cover, depicting President Donald Trump looming over the girl with the caption: "Welcome to America"".
"The image was taken by a photographer for the news agency Getty Images, John Moore, on 12 June at McAllen, Texas.
The Pulitzer prize-winner told the BBC that the mother had been breastfeeding her child after crossing the Rio Grande in a raft in the moments before they were detained."
"Mr Moore said they were taken away together by border patrol."
"Mr Valera said his daughter and her mother, Sandra Sanchez, have been detained together in the border town of McAllen as Ms Sanchez seeks asylum.
Honduran Deputy Foreign Minister Nelly Jerez verified Mr Valera's version of events to Reuters.
The Border Patrol agent who stopped Ms Sanchez and her daughter, Carlos Ruiz, said the mother was asked to set the child down so she could be searched.
"The kid immediately started crying as she set her down. I personally went up to the mother and asked her, 'Are you doing OK? Is the kid OK?'
"And she said, 'Yes. She's tired and thirsty. It's 11 o'clock at night.'"
The little girl is two-year-old Yanela Denise, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.
Mr Valera said Ms Sanchez and their daughter had left the Honduran city of Puerto Cortes without telling him or the couple's three other children."
Fabricating wrong impressions is the new media standard; I would expect this from Tabloids, but not from, so called, respected media outlets. They should have selected an image that had an ounce of truth.
Apparently, lawmakers put gruel laws into the books in order to satisfy a current need, hoping it would not be enforced; when such laws are enforced these very same scoundrels cry out in protest, again satisfying another present need.
Times Magazine was quoted by the BBC, as having made these comments:
ReplyDelete""Our cover and our reporting capture the stakes of this moment," wrote the magazine's editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal.
The magazine also corrected its story, which said the girl was "carried away screaming by US Border Patrol agents", to instead say the mother and daughter were "taken away together"".
I wonder how many times media organizations get away with their lies, and falsely create public opinion? One thing is for certain, this is not news reporting, this is news making.