{"id":145039,"date":"2018-06-22T18:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/migrant-families-separation-poster-girl-not-taken-from-mum-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T18:03:51","slug":"migrant-families-separation-poster-girl-not-taken-from-mum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/migrant-families-separation-poster-girl-not-taken-from-mum-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant families separation poster girl not taken from mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A two-year-old Honduran girl as her mother is searched and detained near the US-Mexico border on in McAllen, Texas, on 12 June 2018\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/121E8\/production\/_102161247_hi047412810.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      The image stoked outrage over the Trump administration&#039;s policy                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A little girl who became the public face of US migrant family separations was not taken away from her mother at the US border, says her father.<\/p>\n<p>A photograph of the Honduran toddler sobbing in a pink jacket was taken at the scene of a border detention.<\/p>\n<p>Time magazine has used the image for its latest cover, depicting President Donald Trump looming over the girl with the caption: &quot;Welcome to America&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>But she is not one of the thousands of child migrants taken from parents.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Migrant families separation: The big picture explained<\/li>\n<li>Melania wears &#039;I really don&#039;t care&#039; coat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The image was taken by photographer John Moore for the news agency Getty Images on 12 June at McAllen, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Pulitzer prize-winner told the BBC that the mother had been breastfeeding her child after crossing the Rio Grande in a raft in the moments before they were detained.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Facebook<figcaption>Image caption                                      Denis Valera (L), Sandra Sanchez (R) and Yanela Denise (M). Mr Valera says the couple have three other children who are back in Honduras                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Moore said they were taken away together by border patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The photo stoked outrage over the Trump administration&#039;s child migrant separations policy, rolled out in April, of removing young undocumented people from their mothers and fathers as they are detained for crossing the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>The photo helped secure $17m (\u00a313m) in donations from hundreds of thousands of people on a Facebook fundraiser for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a Texas-based non-profit organisation.<\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bt5kx.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionA Guatemalan asylum seeker is reunited with her son at a Baltimore airport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&quot;My daughter has become a symbol of the separation of children at the US border,&quot; Denis Valera told Reuters news agency. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;She may have even touched President Trump&#039;s heart.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Seeing what was happening to her in that moment breaks anyone&#039;s heart,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Sandra Sanchez (L) with her daughter Yanela Denise at the border                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Valera said his daughter and her mother, Sandra Sanchez, have been detained together in the border town of McAllen as Ms Sanchez sought asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Honduran Deputy Foreign Minister Nelly Jerez verified Mr Valera&#039;s version of events to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Ruiz, the Border Patrol agent who stopped Ms Sanchez and her daughter, said the mother was asked to set the child down so she could be searched.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The kid immediately started crying as she set her down,&quot; said Mr Ruiz. &quot;I personally went up to the mother and asked her, &#039;Are you doing OK? Is the kid OK?&#039; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;And she said, &#039;Yes. She&#039;s tired and thirsty. It&#039;s 11 o&#039;clock at night.&#039;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The little girl is two-year-old Yanela Denise, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Valera said Ms Sanchez and their daughter had left the Honduran city of Puerto Cortes without telling him or the couple&#039;s three other children.<\/p>\n<p>                           Skip Twitter post  by @thomasbrake                              <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We all know how proud @realDonaldTrump is of his @TIME<br \/>magazine covers. Will he be proud of his latest one? pic.twitter.com\/uqVpsKI66B<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Brake (@thomasbrake) June 21, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>              Report                          <\/p>\n<p>End of Twitter post  by @thomasbrake<\/p>\n<p>He said he believed she went to the US in search of better economic opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Valera told Reuters: &quot;If they are deported, that is OK as long as they do not leave the child without her mother. I am waiting to see what happens with them.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He told the Daily Mail he understands Ms Sanchez paid $6,000 to a smuggler to get her across the border. <\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, the couple&#039;s three other children are aged 14, 11 and six.  <\/p>\n<p>Mr Valera said: &quot;The kids see what&#039;s happening. They&#039;re a little worried but I don&#039;t try to bring it up that much. They know their mother and sister are safe now.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      California congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (R) holds a photo of the little girl at an immigration protest on Capitol Hill on Tuesday                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Time magazine defended its cover on Friday, saying that the photograph of the girl &quot;became the most visible symbol of the ongoing immigration debate in America for a reason&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our cover and our reporting capture the stakes of this moment,&quot; wrote the magazine&#039;s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine also corrected its story, which said the girl was &quot;carried away screaming by US Border Patrol agents&quot;, to instead say the mother and daughter were &quot;taken away together&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders on Twitter claimed that Democrats and the media &quot;exploited this photo of a little girl to push their agenda&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;She was not separated from her mom. The separation here is from the facts,&quot; she wrote. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Mr Trump accused Democrats of playing politics with &quot;phony stories of sadness and grief&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 2,300 children have been removed from their families since Mr Trump&#039;s &quot;zero-tolerance&quot; policy began in May, and housed in detention centres run by the Department of Health and Human Services. <\/p>\n<p>Some shelters, including three in Texas, house so-called &quot;tender age&quot; children, who are under five years old.<\/p>\n<p>About 500 children have been reunited with their families since May, a Homeland Security official said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<h2>More on immigration crisis<\/h2>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06brvby.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionDrone footage shows a &quot;tent city&quot; immigration centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06brb12.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionMayor on reuniting families: &#039;It&#039;s going to be a Herculean task&#039;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bh6ch.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionThe sound of migrant children separated from parents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption The image stoked outrage over the Trump administration&#039;s policy A little girl who became the public face of US migrant family separations was not taken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}