You’ve seen the image hundreds of times by now. Online and on TV. The crying little Honduran girl who the media played up as a “victim” of family separation. Turns out all the crap spewed by the media, including the latest Time Magazine cover was complete and utter bullshit. The little Honduran girl named Yanela Hernandez was never separated from her mother (who was deported once before too.) In fact, it turns out that the girl has been with her mother the whole time according to the kid’s father is an doing really well. We’ll wait and see if the media corrects their absolutely fake news story that’s already been burned into people’s heads.
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Fake News: Crying Child Used by Time Magazine & CNN Was Never Separated From Her Mother – https://t.co/3SKWwMjuXt pic.twitter.com/iqF8GVN2i6
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) June 22, 2018
She has become the poster child for family separation at the border — and the subsequent moral outrage against the Trump administration — but the crying Honduran child held up as a heartbreaking example of family separation at the border was, in fact, never separated from the parent with whom she illegally crossed the border into the U.S.
The two-year-old girl, Yanela, and her mother, Sandra, were detained in Texas after attempting to cross the Rio Grande river, and were held together.
“I know now that they are not in danger. They are safer now than when they were making that journey to the border,” Denis Javier Varela Hernandez told The Daily Mail of his daughter Yanela and wife Sandra. Hernandez also said the two were doing “fine.”