She was wearing a pink shirt and little pink tennis shoes and a soul crushing expression of fear and confusion on her faith as a Border Patrol agent patted down her mother in the middle of the night.

The photograph immediately became iconic. Cable news broadcast it nonstop. A Texas nonprofit, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, used it to raise nearly $17 million from half a million donors. Time magazine put a towering Trump opposite the little girl with the caption “welcome to America.”