The Truth Behind Viral Photo Of “Immigrant Child” Crying Inside A ‘Cage’
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Wed, 06/20/2018
We learnt a new word today (courtesy of Jim Quinn’s Burning Platform blog), and it describes perfectly the current state of the ‘weaponized’ liberal media –
Calumny: the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone’s reputation.
A photo of a little boy crying in a cage is being shared on social media as seemingly another heart-rending byproduct of the White House’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which separates undocumented parents and kids at the border.
But as CNN reports (yes CNN, but we will get back to that), there’s only one problem: The picture is being completely taken out of context — and does not show what it is purported to show.
Many of those sharing it claim the image depicts a boy detained by ICE under the new Trump administration policy of referring all people who cross the border illegally for criminal prosecution.
Among them was journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas who posted the photo last week on Twitter, saying: “This is what happens when a government believes people are ‘illegal’. Kids in cages.”
And that has been ‘favorited’ 38,000 times (and 10,000 more on Facebook)… but it’s a lie.
As CNN is forced to admit, the picture was actually taken during a June 10 protest against White House immigration policies at Dallas City Hall, as first reported by fact-checking site Snopes.
The Rest…HERE
