Do they need to be so inhuman?


  • Nation
  • Friday, 22 Jun 2018

A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the US-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. - AFP

Remember Aylan Kurdi, the lifeless three-year-old boy, washed ashore on Turkey’s famous Bodrum Beach back in 2015? He was wearing a bright red T-shirt and shorts.

Flash forward to 2018. A two-year-old girl wearing a bright pink shirt was photographed crying in the middle of the night somewhere at the US-Mexico border. Her mother had to put her down when border patrol officers were checking on her.

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