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| Child pictured crying for her mother. 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. |
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Children in Custody
ABC
Their names are a mystery and in some cases, their faces are too. But the stories of the children caught in the crosshairs of the "zero tolerance" policy at the border are resonating with people across the country. Here are some of the stories of children whose experiences have captured the nation's attention. One of the most iconic images of the border crisis featured a 2-year-old girl from Honduras. John Moore, a special correspondent and senior staff photographer for Getty Images, took the photo after spotting the girl in her mother's arms while he was participating in a ride-along with Customs and Border Protection agents in Texas. He saw a group of roughly 20 mothers and children late on June 12, "gathered on a dirt road" in a part of the Rio Grande Valley and, upon approaching the group, he saw the girl in her mother's arms. Moore said that he saw that the mother was breastfeeding her daughter "to keep her calm" and that, later, one of the agents asked the mother to put her daughter down. "Once the mother put her on the ground she started screaming immediately," Moore said. The mother and daughter were taken away from the scene together, and because their names are unknown, it remains unclear if they were separated, though the policy mandates that if the mother faced charges they would be separated. Read more about Moore's experience here.
