The photo of the young boy was actually taken on June 10, 2018 at an event protesting the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy. The boy is not a detainee. The protest featured signs reading: "If you were separated from your child, what would you do?" and "Hey Trump, what if it were your grandchildren in those dog cages? What would you do then?"
The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said
Monday that they do not have "a policy of separating families at the border."
The protest was hosted by the Texas chapter of the Brown Berets de Cemanahuac,
an indigenous advocacy organization. The group posted on Facebook a photo gallery of the protest, with the little boy noticeably in the background. The viral image, however, was not featured.
"We demand the release of the children being held in a jail and being treated like animals. We will not go away until we have answers!" the Facebook post read.
Snopes debunked the photo of the child in the cage. The boy had not been detained by ICE, nor had it resurfaced from 2014 during the "Obama-era" as some internet commenters had claimed.
PolitiFact also interviewed the original photographer, Leroy Peña, who
said in an interview that the boy had spotted his mother outside the space and began crying and that he was only in the cage for about 30 seconds.
Vargas, who originally tweeted the now-viral photo, said in response to criticism as to how his photo was captioned: "Read what I wrote. All I said the photo was this is what happens when a gov't considers people 'illegal.'"
what the fukk is this? Like, seriously what is the point of this thread?
you think this is THE photo of immigrants in cages?
you believe that? You do know OP is an alt right poster correct and dapped both of your posts? 
