Photo of crying migrant girl was not separated from mother

The viral photo of the crying two-year-quondam Honduran girl has been used by the media to represent the crisis of children being separated from their parents. However, the girl's story might non be what it seems, according to her father.

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A niggling girl shown in a viral photo crying every bit a U.S. Border Patrol agent detained her mother – and used past Time magazine to symbolize the Trump administration's family separation policy – reportedly was never separated from her mom.

"Welcome to America," declared a somber Time embrace, which showed the pic of the Honduran child Yanela Sanchez next to a towering President Trump.

Fourth dimension, which is standing by the cover despite the new information, originally chosen information technology "an image America could non ignore" and interviewed the photographer, as did other outlets. Time followed up with another article entirely about the comprehend and "the story behind" information technology.

The motion-picture show was featured in international coverage of the policy around the earth. The New York Daily News besides put Sanchez on the cover of its June 16 event with the headline: "Callous. Soulless. Craven. Trump."

CNN analyst Chris Cillizza wrote an unabridged article on the TIME comprehend: "Information technology shows the compassion gap that exists between the Trump administration's 'null-tolerance' border policy and the existent-life people that are affected."

But multiple outlets interviewed the father of the daughter backside the iconic paradigm, and he said he had learned that his two-year-one-time daughter was detained with her mother at a facility in Texas, and the 2 were not separated at all. The Honduran government confirmed his version of events to Reuters.

The Washington Post reported that the mother, Sandra Sanchez, had previously been deported in 2013 to Honduras. Her husband told the Post that she left without telling him she was taking Yanela with her and couldn't contact her. Just then he saw the picture on the news.

"You tin can imagine how I felt when I saw that photo of my daughter. Information technology broke my heart. It's difficult equally a father to meet that, only I know now that they are not in danger. They are safer at present than when they were making that journeying to the border," Denis Javier Varela Hernandez told The Daily Mail.

He also said he did not back up his married woman'south conclusion to brand the perilous trek to the U.Due south. and that they have 3 other children together.

MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 12: A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center for possible separation. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is executing the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants' country of origin would no longer qualify them for political asylum status. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 12: A two-yr-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained virtually the U.S.-Mexico edge on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from United mexican states and were detained by U.S. Edge Patrol agents before existence sent to a processing center for possible separation. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is executing the Trump administration's nothing tolerance policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants' country of origin would no longer qualify them for political asylum status. (Photo past John Moore/Getty Images) (2018 Getty Images)

"I didn't back up it. I asked her, why? Why would she desire to put our little girl through that? Just it was her decision at the end of the day."

But despite the dad'southward explanation, Time stood past its cover in a statement Friday.

"The June 12 photograph of the 2-twelvemonth-quondam Honduran girl became the about visible symbol of the ongoing clearing contend in America for a reason: Nether the policy enforced by the administration, prior to its reversal this calendar week, those who crossed the border illegally were criminally prosecuted, which in plough resulted in the separation of children and parents," Fourth dimension editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said. "Our cover and our reporting capture the stakes of this moment."

Notwithstanding, in its story virtually the photo, Time included the following correction: "The original version of this story misstated what happened to the daughter in the photograph subsequently she taken from the scene. The daughter was not carried away screaming by U.Southward. Border Patrol agents; her mother picked her upwards and the 2 were taken abroad together."

The confusion and misrepresentation over the family's circumstances came amidst a chaotic week in which passions flared over the assistants's controversial "zero-tolerance" policy that seeks prosecution for nigh all illegal edge crossers. That policy led to family separations, but Trump backed off with an executive order before this week allowing families to stay together during proceedings.

He faced bipartisan criticism over the separations, but the outrage reached intense levels on the left.

Activists, lawmakers and journalists have defendant the administration of running "internment camps," while Trump assistants officials take had their cell telephone numbers revealed online and been chased out of restaurants.

"We must maintain a Strong Southern Border. We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections. Obama and others had the same pictures, and did nix about it!" Trump tweeted Fri.

It'due south the latest immigration-related misstep past media outlets and reporters.

Terminal calendar month, liberals and journalists rushed to share an article featuring pictures of children locked in cages at an Arizona detention center. Many such tweets were quickly deleted or clarified when other users pointed out that the article was from 2014 -- during then-President Barack Obama's administration.

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Others shared a tweet about a "prison motorcoach" that Immigration and Customs officials allegedly used to carry babies. But the bus was used for educational field trips, and the moving picture was published on April 2016 -- about half dozen months earlier Trump won the presidency.

Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this written report.