Crying girl in photo not actually separated from mother
NEW YORK — A crying Honduran girl depicted in a widely seen photograph that became a symbol for many of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies was not actually separated from her mother, U. S. government officials said on Friday.
Time magazine used an image of the girl, by Getty Images photographer John Moore, on its cover this week, next to a picture of a towering Trump. While Time corrected a story it had written about the photo, its top editor defended the cover.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said it was “shameful” that Democrats and the media exploited the photograph to push an agenda.
“She was not separated from her mom,” Sanders tweeted. “The separation here is from the facts.”
Time magazine said in a correction to a story written this week about the photograph that “the girl was not carried away screaming by U. S. border patrol agents. Her mother picked her up and the two were taken away together.”
Said Edward Felsenthal, Time editor- inchief: “Our cover and our reporting capture the stakes of this moment.”