The story behind the photo of the little girl, crying as her mother is searched at the border

[coeur_de_lion]

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/18/i-wanted-to-stop-her-crying-the-image-of-a-migrant-child-that-broke-a-photographers-heart/?utm_term=.4e91d85ed66b|

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“It was very quick,” he recalled. The mother set the girl down, and an agent began to run gloved hands across her body.

Immediately, the girl began to scream.

“I wanted to stop her crying,” Moore said. He imagined the guards might have wanted that, too; he had seen them joke with other children during searches, to distract from what was happening to their parents.

But it all happened so quickly, and the girl’s despair was so complete in those few seconds.

“The mother stoically had her hands against the vehicle, and the girl was crying,” Moore said. “Neither were saying words. Nothing could be said with her. She needed to be with her mother.”

He took two shots, moments apart. He understood at once that they were the photos he had been waiting for — for hours, if not years. Both images would become symbols of what the U.S.-Mexico border has become under President Trump.
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[uppityperson]

1. I'm out of free WaPo articles, but if you click the x to stop it fully

loading, I could read the article and some of the picts.

This is heartbreaking.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. If you use Firefox, you can click the reader view square in the address bar

as a page is just finished loading, it often will open to the reader page with no barriers.
Pics sometimes are not included, tho.

[uppityperson]

7. Thank you

[kimbutgar]

2. I posted that picture as my Facebook profile

Been off Facebook since mid April. First time today I logged on and put that picture as my FB profile. I am so sad, angry and disgusted.

[struggle4progress]

4. "It's just like summer camp! Mommy was led off in handcuffs, then I was flown to another city

and locked inside a cage on a windowless room for weeks, surrounded by weepy toddlers with poop-filled diapers that the counselors wouldn't change, before Mommy was sent away, with no idea how to contact me! And I even got a nifty space blanket! Happy memories of fun times!"

[lunatica]

5. I bet that photo becomes iconic

and that it hangs over Trump and his craven children’s heads as they become pariahs.

They should be ruined as effectively and as completely as the likes of OJ Simpson or Harvey Weinstein.

Oh! And Ivanka can take that picture of herself hugging her kid and shove it up her ass.

[SoCalDem]

6. someone needs to photoshop that girl with Ivanka

It would be fun to see her loving maternal gaze without her beloved son..

[H2O Man]

8. Recommended.

I saw him interviewed on television last night. That photo defines the Trump administration.