Time Magazine
Corrects Cover Story on Crying Migrant Girl, Admits Family Was Never Separated
Time Magazine Corrects Cover Story on Crying Migrant
Girl, Admits Family Was Never Separated
[The Wrap]
Jon Levine
,The Wrap•June 22, 2018
Time Magazine issued a correction to their most recent
cover story on Friday, revealing that Yanela Hernandez, who became
world famous over a tearful image of her being separated from her family, was,
in fact never separated at all.
“The original version of this story misstated what
happened to the girl in the photo after she taken from the scene,” read the
correction at the bottom of their cover story.
“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.”
While there is no doubt the family separation policy at
the border did take place, the revelation that Hernandez herself was not
separated is a high-profile mistake for the iconic magazine.
The magazine did, however, stand by the broader thrust of
the piece.
“The June 12 photograph of the 2-year-old Honduran girl
became the most visible symbol of the ongoing immigration debate in America for
a reason,” said the magazine’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal. “Under
the policy enforced by the administration, prior to its reversal this week,
those who crossed the border illegally were criminally prosecuted, which in
turn resulted in the separation of children and parents. Our cover and our
reporting capture the stakes of this moment.”
Time’s cover story was released in the wake of a national
furor over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy of separating
children from their families at the Mexican border. Although Trump caved to
political pressure and announced an executive order ending the policy on
Wednesday, it is not yet clear how the administration will reunite the
thousands of families that have already been separated.
Time did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for
comment.
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