At 12:45 a.m. today, journalist and illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas shared this photo and tweeted, “This is what happens when a government believes people are ‘illegal.’ Kids in cages.”
His tweet has been liked and shared thousands of times:
This is what happens when a government believes people are “illegal.”
Kids in cages. pic.twitter.com/OAnvr9cl3P
— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) June 12, 2018
Roughly 9 hours later, Vargas then decided to question if the photo was authentic or not. This tweet has been retweeted only a dozen times:
Still trying to find a source for this photo. Saw it on a FB friend’s timeline but looking for confirmation. Has anyone seen it elsewhere?
— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) June 12, 2018
It’s journalism in reverse!
As for the child in a cage, we haven’t seen immigrants treated this way — if it is, indeed, an immigrant held in U.S. custody since … Barack Obama was president:
KEEP DIGGING: Jon Favreau responds to his now infamous deleted tweet of the Obama kennels https://t.co/SPyKejDkQT
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 29, 2018
Now, we have no idea if it’s a current image or not and it’s not showing up in Google’s reverse image database. But what it is, at worst, is an image showing that the Trump administration and the Obama administration are remarkably similar in the treatment of minors. We’ll see what the story is if/when someone finds the source of the image.
Screenshot for posterity if Vargas deletes it:
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Related:
ICYMI==> Jon Favreau, Shaun King, Linda Sarsour and other libs just committed the greatest self-own in the history of Twitter https://t.co/gDEi2HwwcF
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 28, 2018
Outrageously OUTRAGED! Jon Favreau has a long history of blaming Trump for Obama's immigration FAILS (tweets) https://t.co/IW3OFj3Heb
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 28, 2018
SHOCKER: Jon Favreau admits he never would have posted that Obama-era photo of children in cages https://t.co/jy8tDY8uFp
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 30, 2018