Photo Of Mother Pleading With Mexican Soldier Draws Attention To Migrant Patrol

[Judi Lynn]

July 24, 20194:35 PM ET
CARRIE KAHN



Guatemalan migrant Lety Pérez embraces her son, Anthony, while pleading with a Mexican National Guard member to let them cross into the United States, near Juárez, Mexico, on Monday.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

A picture of an armed Mexican National Guard soldier impeding a crying migrant mother and her child from getting to the United States is spreading on social media and making headlines in Mexico.

Critics of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's tighter border enforcement have seized on the image to decry Mexico's new security plan, implemented after intense pressure from the Trump administration.

In the photo taken by Reuters, the soldier stands on a dry riverbed between the Mexican city of Juárez and El Paso, Texas. He holds a firearm pointed toward the ground. The woman weeps and clutches her young son.

In a video of the scene published Wednesday by Mexico's El Universal newspaper, the woman pleads with the National Guard to let her and her boy pass into the United States.

More:
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/24/744934308/photo-of-mother-pleading-with-mexican-soldier-draws-attention-to-migrant-patrol

[JoeOtterbein]

1. Please support impeachment!

This photo proves why.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Jesus, that poor woman. Tears of desperation and exhaustion, I should think.

After months of travel and fending off human vultures who prey on the immigrants, to be within sight of the finish line, so to speak, and realize you cannot get there.
Then again, we know what will happen if she does...trump's henchmen will take the kid away, lock them both up, and odds are she may never see him again.

. If anyone deserves to be locked up in a cage, it is trump and his fellow sociopaths.


Thank god I am on blood pressure meds.