Thursday, June 21, 2018

Welcome To America - Updated


To quote photographer David Hume Kennerly, this one's probably not going up on the wall at Mar-a-Lago.

To be clear, Kennerly didn't take the original picture of the little girl. It was taken by John Moore, Special Correspondent/Senior Staff Photographer at Getty Images:

Public response to the photographs of this scared little girl from Honduras has been overwhelming for me to see. I thought I would share the images that led to the key moment that touched many of you, as it did me. A Honduran asylum seeker, age 2, cries as she and her mother are taken into custody by federal agents near the US-Mexico border. The mother said they had been traveling for a month to reach the United States. They had just crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico and were then transported to a US Customs and Border Protection processing center. The Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy for undocumented immigrants calls for the frequent separation of parents and children while their cases for political asylum are adjudicated, a process that can take months - or years. This is a series of photographs I took while on a ride-along with the Border Patrol in Texas’ Río Grande Valley last week. #gettyimages #undocumented #gettyimagesnews
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Thursday afternoon update: Next week's cover of the New Yorker:


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