This week the treatment of families that have entered the United States illegally has been a hot topic in the press. So much so, that President Trump enacted an Executive Order to prevent further separation of families and to rejoin children with their parents. To illustrate how terrible, it is for the Trump Administration to allow children to be separated from their parents the mainstream media published a photo of a young Honduran girl crying. As reported in The Washington Post, "the widely shared photo of the little girl crying as a U.S. Border Patrol agent patted down her mother became a symbol of the families pulled apart by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy at the border, even landing on the new cover of Time magazine”. The father of the girl later told a reporter from The Washington Post and confirmed by the U.S. Border Patrol Agents the child had never been separated from her mother while in the custody of the agents. [1 image, 1 link, 1 quotation, 164 words]
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