Time magazine on Friday printed a correction to a story that erroneously described a photo that blazed across the Internet this week and purported to show a little girl being separated by her illegal immigrant mother as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy.
“The original version of this story misstated what happened to the girl in the photo after she taken from the scene,” the correction said. “The girl was not carried away screaming by U.S. Border Patrol agents; her mother picked her up and the two were taken away together.”
The photo was taken by photographer John Moore and used in a dramatic photoshopped illustration on this week’s issue of Time, showing the Honduran girl crying in front of an image of President Trump, whose aggressive enforcement of immigration laws led to many families being separated at the border.
The magazine said, however, it was standing by its cover art.
“The June 12 photograph of the 2-year-old Honduran girl became the most visible symbol of the ongoing immigration debate in America for a reason,” the magazine’s editor in chief, Edward Felsenthal, said in a statement. “Under the policy enforced by the administration, prior to its reversal this week, those who crossed the border illegally were criminally prosecuted, which in turn resulted in the separation of children and parents. Our cover and our reporting capture the stakes of this moment.”
The Daily Mail website reported Thursday, however, that the girl had not actually been taken from her mother. Her father told the website that he knew the two to be safe together in the custody of U.S. authorities.
