Propaganda Fail

(As they say)



My! This must be embarrassing:

This time, it’s for a viral photo of a crying girl ‘separated’ from her family at the border.

It’s an image that spread quickly, and was used by the media as an attack on the Trump Administration’s family separation policy.

Except, as noted by Daily Caller reporter Saagar Enjeti, the girl wasn’t actually separated from her mother:

“Father of the now famous photo of the little girl crying says his wife/child were never separated at any time by authorities, that his wife was seeking a job (not fleeing violence), and that he is upset w/ her for taking his child on the dangerous journey”

As reported by the Daily Mail, “In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Hernandez, who lives in Puerto Cortes, Honduras, says that he was told yesterday that his wife and child are being detained at a family residential center in Texas but are together and are doing ‘fine.’ ‘You can imagine how I felt when I saw that photo of my daughter. It broke my heart. It’s difficult as a father to see that, but I know now that they are not in danger. They are safer now than when they were making that journey to the border,’ he said.

Denis said his wife and daughter were never separated by border control agents and remain together.”

Additionally, “He revealed that his wife had previously mentioned her wish to go to the United States for a ‘better future’ but did not tell him nor any of their family members that she was planning to make the trek. ‘I didn’t support it. I asked her, why? Why would she want to put our little girl through that? But it was her decision at the end of the day.'”

What must that do for the Narrative?


Will this tragic incident get more traction?:

While official Washington’s attention has been focused this week on President Trump and illegal immigrant parents separated from their children, Border Patrol agents in Arizona spotted a completely different type of family separation.

Agents say they were patrolling the border road near Lukeville, Arizona, on Tuesday night when they discovered a 6-year-old Costa Rican boy abandoned on the road in 100-degree heat.

The child told the agents he’d been dropped off on the road by his uncle, who’d told him the Border Patrol would pick him up, agents said. The boy said his mother was an illegal immigrant living in the U.S., and his uncle told the boy the American government would take him to her.

Costa Rica’s foreign ministry said the boy was in good condition, and they had already reached out to the mother.

I suppose not.



Meanwhile:

As noted in a recent Globe & Mail report, “a wave of asylum seekers has descended onto Canada’s largest city.”

“Many of them are families. All are in need of housing, adding pressure to Toronto’s already-strained shelter system in a high-priced city with limited affordable housing. To deal with the pressure, the city asked two colleges to open their student dorms to refugee claimants for the summer and there are plans to erect four tents in the city to serve as extra shelter space later this year.”

When liberal Torontonians tire of tents and the stench of human waste in their city, they will demand that the illegal migrants they once had pity for be removed forthwith.

Count on it.