TIME Magazine's
Shocking Cover Is A Total Lie. No Wonder Americans Don't Trust The Media.
ByBen Shapiro
@benshapiro
June 22, 2018
This week, TIME magazine featured a picture of a crying
illegal immigrant child on its cover. The child was supposedly separated from
her parents; over her looms Donald Trump, smugly staring down at her.
There’s only one problem: the cover is total bull. It’s
not just total bull because Trump hasn’t implemented a newly-developed policy
of separating children from parents – that’s an operation of law under the
Flores settlement as modified by a 2016 Ninth Circuit court ruling. It’s bull
because this particular child wasn’t separated from her mother, her mother
wasn’t fleeing persecution but did falsely claim asylum, her mother did put the
child in danger, and Trump was targeted by the media for treating this mother
and child exactly the same way the Obama administration would have.
Here’s the real story.
The little girl is from Honduras. She wasn’t separated
from her mother; she was crying because her mother was crossing illegally into
the United States and the little girl was “tired and thirsty,” according to
Border Patrol.
Here’s Reuters reporting:
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 U.S. border, according to a man who says
he is the girl's father… "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 in a telephone interview. 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 they were not separated after being detained near the border. Honduran
deputy foreign minister Nelly Jerez confirmed Valera's version of events.
So, why did the mother take off for America? According to
dad, she ditched her three other children because she wanted better economic
opportunities.
Yet this photo was passed around endlessly, and was used
by various human rights groups to raise cash for their anti-Trump efforts.
Remember, the same media organizations promoting this photo tore into Trump for
using footage of migrants in Morocco rather than at the southern border to push
his anti-illegal immigration agenda.
The media have spent the last several years believing
that Americans dislike them only because President Trump has somehow
manipulated them. That isn’t true. Trump merely took advantage of the fact that
the media have utterly undermined their own credibility, and continue to do so
each day. No wonder Trump loves the media: they’re doing him the favor of
demonstrating their continuing bias by promoting actual fake news on a regular
basis.
Adolph Hitler, Man
of the Year | Jan. 2, 1939
No comments:
Post a Comment