‘HONDURAN GIRL ON TIME MAGAZINE COVER NOT SEPARATED FROM MOTHER’

TEGUCIGALPA : The Honduran toddler pictured sobbing in a pink jacket before U.S. President Donald Trump on an upcoming cover of Time magazine was not separated from her mother at the US border, according to a man who says he is the girl’s father. The powerful original photograph, taken at the scene of a border detention by Getty Images photographer John Moore, became one of the iconic images in the flurry of media coverage about the separation of families by the Trump administration. Dozens of newspapers and magazines around the globe published the picture, swelling the tide of outrage that pushed Trump to back down Wednesday and say families would no longer be separated. “My daughter has become a symbol of the ... separation of children at the U.S. border. She may have even touched President Trump’s heart,” Denis Valera told Reuters. Valera said the little girl and her mother, Sandra Sanchez, have been detained together in the Texas border town of Mcallen, where Sanchez has applied for asylum, and were not separated after being detained.