Iggy:
As rather widely reported , Time issued a correction which states:
Moreover, according to the Washington Post report, the mother had been patted down for about two minutes, after which the mother "immediately picked up her daughter, who then stopped crying.
So, apparently Time did say in the original story that the girl was carried away screaming by U.S. Border Patrol agents, but that was not true. And the child was not crying when taken away with her mother by Border Patrol agents.
The obvious question then is why did Time report that she had been carried away screaming by Border Patrol agents? Who told them that? Or did they just make up something that fit their narrative?
I was countering the narrative of the conservative media, and you just found what Snopes noted indeed. TIME has clarified what other outlets already reported. From the Snopes article already cited:
Contrary to claims, media outlets have consistently reported that the girl was never separated from her mother; that information was reiterated when U.S. Customs and Border Patrol stated that the pair had not been separated.
During a June 2018 controversy involving a then-new zero-tolerance family separation policy at the border, debate raged on social media about the provenance of a number of photographs — one of which depicted a very young girl in a pink shirt surrounded by border agents, sobbing.
On 21 June 2018, the web site Daily Wire was among sites reporting that media outlets falsely claimed the child had been separated from her mother:
Are you referring to Obama? He’s the one who started the camps.
That families would be detained when they could not show a reason to ask for Asylum is no reason to separate the families, and that separation is what is inhumane and the problem now.
No, Donald Trump’s separation of immigrant families was not Barack Obama’s policy
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Critics of the Trump administration’s separating of families illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico have characterized the practice as a distinctly cruel feature of Donald Trump’s presidency.
But some Republican commentators argue the policy is essentially a continuation of previous administrations.
“You know what’s ironic? It’s the same way Barack Obama did it,” conservative commentator Matt Schlapp said during the June 15 broadcast of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom. “This is the problem with all of these things, the outrage you see coming from the left. There wasn’t outrage over Barack Obama separating kids from adults.”
While the Obama administration’s immigration approach was not without controversy, it’s simply untrue to say he had a policy of separating families.
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2018/06/18/myths-and-facts-trumps-separation-families-and-detention-children-us-mexico-border/220468#Myth:%20Past%20administrations%20had%20the%20same%20policy%20of%20separating%20families .
Fact: The Obama administration detained families together. According to Vox, beginning in 2014, the Obama administration “put hundreds of families in immigration detention” together. However, a federal court ruled that the administration could not keep the families detained for so long without justifying why they were being detained. Many families therefore were released while their immigration or asylum cases worked through the court system. Conservatives derisively called this practice a “catch and release” program. While the Obama administration did have “scattered cases of family separation,” Trump’s routine family separation “has formalized into policy what is just a cruel and inhumane practice.”
TroutMan:
I know, right? The whole magazine title is a lie. I mean, the articles aren’t really about time, are they? I read the entire issue, and there’s not one article about clocks. It’s a goddamn outrage, it is.
This might be the best answer I’ve ever seen.
Truthfully, I would replace “her” with “a”.
That’s cute. If the fuckers who’ve instituted this policy want to properly correct the record, they can release pictures of what it really looks like when they take children from their parents and lock them all in cages.
Plenty of photos online of kids in cages in 2014 during the Obama administration.
Were there over two thousand of them taken from their parents and put in those cages?
“The other side did less evil than our side” is kind of a weak defense. Probably beats last week’s “only following orders.”
Are you saying they photoshopped out the umbilical cord?!? Have they no shame?!