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Photo Shows A Father And Daughter Who Drowned Crossing The Border. The Story Behind The Image (tr)
Daiywire ^ | 6/26/2019 | Matt Walsh

Posted on 06/27/2019 6:16:02 AM PDT by RightGeek

This was not a family turned coldly away as it fled violence and oppression. They were not turned away at all. They simply grew impatient waiting for the bureaucratic wheels to turn. Indeed, family members confirm that the family was not being persecuted in its home country:

Oscar worked at a Papa Johns pizza restaurant, where he was earning $350 a month.

They lived off his wage, limiting themselves to $10-a-day, because Tania had already quit her job as a cashier in a Chinese restaurant to care for Valeria, their only child.

...They were not fleeing violence, Tania's mother has since said, but were in desperate search of a life where they could earn more.

Their plan was to spend a few years in America to save up enough money to eventually return to El Salvador and buy or build their own house.
We have stretched the concept of "persecuted on account of race, religion, or social group" into meaningless if we include those who are (understandably) distressed by low wages. If you blame the terrible deaths of Oscar and Valeria Ramirez on Trump, you must be arguing that the President should have personally moved the Ramirez family to the front of the asylum line. Or else that he should have instated a general policy that grants immediate asylum to anyone in the world who wants to come here for a few years to make some money and then return home. This would be absurd, of course.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bordersecurity; drowning; fakenews; illegals; propaganda
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To: RightGeek

The Left and its media are 100% about selling the images that sell their agenda, not any facts.


21 posted on 06/27/2019 6:31:57 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: RightGeek

Sorry, there is no GD way that those bodies sank, then resurfaced days later, owing to buoyancy brought on by formation of body gasses, with the ARM stays in that zact same position.

It’s dubious it would remain —had it ever been there, in the first place— after even 10 minutes.

Ditto for still being in the shirt.

Someone very political and hard-hearted found the two bodies, and co-located them. Then they crammed her in the shirt, and stood back, looking critically, like a director, imagining the frame-up of the scene.

At the end, as a flourish, the DAD HUG aspect with the arm was added.

You know what I want?

I want them to genetically test those two bodies in order to confirm they’re related at all, because I don’t believe it.

This is more of a fabrication than the Tonkin Gulf scandal.


22 posted on 06/27/2019 6:32:14 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: RightGeek

I flipped it on, about halfway through or so, and watched fo 10 minutes, If that... it was beyond snoozefest... and Trump wasn’t really live tweeting... so I went on living my life.

Watched a little of the after debate “analysis” and found it to be just as stupid as the 10 minutes of the debate....

I highly doubt those ratings numbers are accurate.... Perhaps thats how many total tuned in, but no way 15 Million plus watched that entire thing....


23 posted on 06/27/2019 6:34:26 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: 1Old Pro

“The Dem solution, do not fix the problem, make it worse - that’s their solution to everything in case you never noticed.”

They keep running the photo because hyper-emotional liberal white women will bleat about how unfair it is without ever even being curious as to what really happened. That father is as responsible for his daughter’s death as if he put a gun to her head.


24 posted on 06/27/2019 6:37:03 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: RightGeek

SIMPLE SOLUTION: DON’T COME HERE!!


25 posted on 06/27/2019 6:37:41 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: gaijin

26 posted on 06/27/2019 6:39:33 AM PDT by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: gaijin

"...about $1400, they said it would take 20 minutes. Some director in a nice sweater and fedora. And some gay make-up guy, and they had a cameraman. $1,400 and about 20 minutes. And it went very simply, like that, and suddenly we were done and paid in cash, very simple."

27 posted on 06/27/2019 6:40:11 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: far sider

My friends and I swam drunk at night in gator infested retention ponds. Some of us are lucky...


28 posted on 06/27/2019 6:41:49 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Bratch

29 posted on 06/27/2019 6:42:16 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

“I want them to genetically test those two bodies in order to confirm they’re related at all, because I don’t believe it.”

Me, too! What happened to ‘Trust, BUT verify?

By their lack of veracity they have not earned my trust.


30 posted on 06/27/2019 6:42:41 AM PDT by Tomato lover (Faith can survive without freedom. But, freedom cannot survive without faith.)
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To: RightGeek

They keep showing that picture but not of Americans murdered by illegals.


31 posted on 06/27/2019 6:46:16 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: gaijin
Sorry, there is no GD way that those bodies sank, then resurfaced days later, owing to buoyancy brought on by formation of body gasses, with the ARM stays in that zact same position.

Also notice no graying of the skin due to blood settling. Also, there is no bloating, or a lot of wrinkled skin from being in the water.

Why didn't the person who found them, roll them over and check for a pulse, maybe initiate CPR. Those bodies look fresh enough to at least check for vital signs, but nope, lets find a ladder and take a picture instead.

I personally think that picture was staged when whoever took the pictures, found the bodies.

32 posted on 06/27/2019 6:47:43 AM PDT by mikefive (RLTW/DOL)
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To: SkyDancer

33 posted on 06/27/2019 6:48:19 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: mikefive
Why didn't the person who found them, roll them over and check for a pulse, maybe initiate CPR. Those bodies look fresh enough to at least check for vital signs, but nope, lets find a ladder and take a picture instead.

I personally think that picture was staged when whoever took the pictures, found the bodies.

You HAVE to see this movie..!

It does reflect the mindset you describe; what works, what doesn't, for television. And the determination and indifference to the actual truth required in order to get the shot that pay$$.

Every conservative should see this great, but little known, movie.

34 posted on 06/27/2019 6:53:05 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Link to source/full article?


35 posted on 06/27/2019 6:56:23 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: ConservativeMind

350 a month?
BS. At minimum wage, that’s working one day per week.
Papa Johns would have taken taxes too.

So I guess they slept under a bridge?

350 a week seems more likely.


36 posted on 06/27/2019 6:59:44 AM PDT by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: RightGeek

If this is a real incident, just tell the liberal it was a post birth abortion of a child, and an adult offing himself to remove his carbon footprint. A liberal can’t argue against that scenario.


37 posted on 06/27/2019 7:07:19 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
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To: SkyDancer

There are plenty of pictures available of horrific car wrecks caused by drunk illegals who have been deported multiple times.

Guess the media can’t find them.


38 posted on 06/27/2019 7:12:04 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: RightGeek

Most places in the US, if you have a swimming pool you are required by law to have a fence to keep people out. A pool is considered an “attractive nuisance”.
Build The Wall!


39 posted on 06/27/2019 7:12:40 AM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: RightGeek

I guess the picture was a priority instead of the victims?


40 posted on 06/27/2019 7:13:08 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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