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Fact Check: ‘Caged’ Child Photo Is Not What Immigration Advocates Claim
brietbart ^ | 06/18/2018 | Katherine Rodriguez

Posted on 06/19/2018 5:26:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A photo is making the rounds on social media of a little boy stuck inside a cage and which many immigration advocates say is a depiction of how the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy is separating kids from their families. However, many people sharing the photo are unaware of its original context. The photo gained traction on Twitter last week after journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas tweeted the photo with the caption: “This is what happens when a government believes people are ‘illegal.’ Kids in cages.”

Many others shared the photo with a few words torching the Trump administration’s immigration policies and encouraged others to share the picture.

Although many social media users claimed the boy in the photo was an illegal immigrant trapped in a cage by immigration authorities, the photo is actually from a June 10 protest staged outside of Dallas City Hall, according to the fact-checking website Snopes.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: border; caged; facecheck; immigration

1 posted on 06/19/2018 5:26:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

CNN will be outing this... right?


2 posted on 06/19/2018 5:33:38 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: All

The truth is irrelevant. This story is finally the golden ticket and the MSM has pulled out all the stops.


3 posted on 06/19/2018 5:33:44 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If American parents purposefully exposed their children to the same jeopardy as the illegals are doing with their children by the hazardous journey and illegal activity, Child Protective Service would permanently remove the children from their parents.


4 posted on 06/19/2018 5:46:45 AM PDT by odawg
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To: ChicagoConservative27

... the fact-checking website Snopes.

>>>
Seriously, Breitbart? Not Soros-funded Snopes, please.


5 posted on 06/19/2018 6:09:06 AM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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To: odawg

Good point.....


6 posted on 06/19/2018 6:16:46 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The corrupt media is, well, corrupt.


7 posted on 06/19/2018 6:18:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This BS outrage story starts as the grim truth of the FBI corruption and election meddling scandals break. Coincidence?


8 posted on 06/19/2018 6:27:05 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Liberals can’t stop lying about a fake photo.

Which is nowhere close to the truth about our policy to detain illegal alien
minors - who are certainly not being kept in cages!

Liberals are smearing the President by implying he’s acting inhumanely and that’s a perversion of reality.

Its reprehensible.


9 posted on 06/19/2018 6:33:22 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A n Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The media is pathetic!


10 posted on 06/19/2018 6:43:25 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: gibsonguy

‘This story is finally the golden ticket’

yes it is; and it went platinum by the White House sending dowdy old Jeff Sessions out to quote an irrelevant Scripture passage, opening the door for the media to gleefully toss it right back at him...


11 posted on 06/19/2018 6:44:20 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: ChicagoConservative27

LEFTIST LIE!


12 posted on 06/19/2018 6:45:08 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Deport Vargas as an alien combatant


13 posted on 06/19/2018 6:54:17 AM PDT by South Dakota (We need a real independent investigation of Bill/Hillary and Obama's actions)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Photo is actually from a June 10 protest staged outside of Dallas City Hall.
Another CNN reporter in row boat with flood waters 8 inches deep story.


14 posted on 06/19/2018 9:00:01 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BookMark


15 posted on 06/19/2018 10:40:25 AM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Par for the course. Other examples:


(Don't you just hate it when your drowning refugee photo is ruined by the guy who stands up?) Reminds me of that "reporter" covering a flooded street some time ago.


16 posted on 06/19/2018 1:39:46 PM PDT by Oatka (tHE)
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Media deception is very easy. Those fools aren’t smart enough to feed us daily lies if it were difficult.


17 posted on 06/19/2018 1:42:05 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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