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This is the world's image of America under Trump:
A viral image of a crying Honduran child at the U.S.-Mexico border has won the 2019 World Press Photo contest’s Photo of the Year prize.
The Amsterdam-based World Press Photo Foundation announced the winners of the annual awards on Thursday, honoring the best photojournalism of the prior year.
Even though the mother and child were later released together pending an asylum hearing, the photo still captures the searing emotion of an innocent caught up in a traumatizing situation.The winning photo, “Crying Girl on the Border,” was taken by Getty Images photojournalist John Moore. It shows the 2-year-old child crying while her mother, a Honduran asylum-seeker, is detained by U.S. border agents at the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas.
Children caged, families separated, all so that Trump can look tough to his frothing, callous, racist base. It's never been more depressing to be an American.
