It’s the front page depicting the sad state of Trump’s America.
The New York Daily News‘ anti-Trump front page is leading Americans to call for change with its front page headlined: “Callous. Soulless. Craven. Trump.”
The New York-based newspaper’s front page features a heartbreaking image of a crying two-year-old girl, in a bid to target President Trump‘s controversial practice of separating migrant children from their parents.
The visibly distraught toddler pictured was photographed while her mother, an asylum seeker from Honduras, was detained at the US-Mexico border.
According to the newspaper’s front page, in just six weeks, nearly 2000 migrant children have been separated from their parents under Trump’s orders.
These children are taken away when their parents are being held by US border patrol.
Despite comments labelling the detentions ‘prison-like‘ – officials insist that the migrant children are currently being kept in decent conditions.
Thousands of the separated migrant children are currently being held in both a tent city and a former Walmart in Texas.
In the article published this week, the New York Daily News attacked Trump’s dishonesty around the controversial immigration policy.
“The only thing worse than the nauseating cruelty of President Trump’s immigration policy – captured perfectly by the agonising stories of young children forcefully being separated from their parents at the border – is the craven dishonesty with which he attempts to sell it to the American people,” the article states.
The article described “dreamers, innocent children, and ordinary Americans who demand sane immigration policies” as being “the casualties of Trump’s sabotage”.
On Twitter, commenters have begun referring to the children’s detention as ‘Trump concentration camps’, with many calling for an end to Trump’s controversial immigration policy.
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Why must they separate children from their parents? Children won't care if they're going into hell holes as long they're with their parents. I know. My first 7 years of life was in a refugee camp. Apparently it was a hell hole as refugee camps tend to be. But I was a child, I didnt think it was, cos I had both my parents there to love me and made me feel safe.
And yet it was the mother that put her in that position?
Would you blame the police, police minister or Prime Minister if Shazza was arrested in front of her daughter at Kmart for stealing and locked up forcing the daughter into foster care?
God, these people are fleeing violence and awful conditions. I get so sick of attitudes like yours. We are alll people and people deserve human rights.These are children and its the government separating them from their parents. They could easily be kept together humanly.
I understand what they are fleeing and I don't agree with their treatment, nor am I defending the people doing it but I I will call out double standards when I see them.