Time magazine issues major correction to illegal immigrant family separations piece

Published June 22, 2018 4:40pm ET



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.”

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