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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

GOPDD: Iconic Refugee Picture Has Proven to Be a Huge Lie. Here’s the Real Photo

Feb 22, 2017 by Harry Hibbs

When news agencies and outlets discuss the refugee crisis, they invariably use photography and video footage to highlight their point. While the refugee crisis is certainly happening and real footage exists, some of the iconic images that have been shared online thousands of times have been manipulated to illicit a more emotional reaction from viewers.
The pictures are cropped and displayed in a way that does not showcase the true situation. When the Syrian refugee crisis first began, President Barack Obama said it is “not American” to institute “a religious test for which person who’s fleeing from a war-torn country is admitted when some of those folks themselves come from families who benefitted from protection when they were fleeing political persecution, that’s shameful.”