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A migrant woman runs away with tear gas with her daughters. (Reuters Photo)
The woman grabs her two twin daughters, one in each hand, while they flee. A child is barefoot; the other is about to fall. Both wear only t-shirts and diapers.
The woman returns to the smoke of the tear gas that she tries to flee. Behind them are wire fences, a partial wall separating them from the United States and dozens of other migrants, many of them children, who are also running.
Standing up just a few steps away, Reuters photojournalist Kim Kyung-Hoon sees the woman who is hard to miss in her purple and blue-green blouse to the characters in the film "Frozen". He takes a picture, capturing his face as she tries desperately to pull her two young children out of the gas that is spreading.
The powerful picture, which appeared on the websites and on the front pages of US news outlets, including The Washington Post has provoked the outrage of social media. The photo contradicts the image of violent migrants that President Donald Trump had evoked on Twitter and at election rallies before the mid-term elections.
The smoke of the tear gas canister, the children in childbirth, the anguished look, the wall in the background, this T-shirt "Frozen" – all summed up the chaos of this day, and for Kim, the truth about the migrants from Central America, whom he had been following for almost two weeks while they were crossing Mexico and heading for the United States were going to seek asylum.
Maria Lila Meza, a migrant from Honduras with her five-year-old twin daughters. (Reuters)
"I think my picture tells what's going on right now," he said.
Kim follows the migrants since arriving in Mexico City on November 14, 2009. He captured pictures of migrant children sitting on a bus waiting for food in Culiacan, Mexico. He followed the migrants to a service station in Navojoa, Mexico, where they bathed and waited in line to find food. And in Mexicali, Mexico, migrants crammed themselves like sardines over trucks as they headed east, to Tijuana
Migrants arrived in Tijuana several days ago and had been camped in a sports complex not far from the US border. [19659003] On Sunday morning, some of them started walking towards the San Ysidro border crossing. They wore flags of their country and banners on which were written "TRUMP, WE DO NOT HOLD YOU" and "MR TRUMP, CONTACT US." Kim followed the group and spotted several children and people carrying strollers.
The majority of the group gathered peacefully near the border, while thousands of others did not show up and stayed at the sports complex. But a fight erupted between the Mexican police in riot gear and about 20 protesters, some crossing a dry cbad and others trying to cross different entry points.
Kim remembers seeing two men trying to dismantle the grid. US officials said people threw stones and bottles at border services officers, who then fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Kim then saw the woman running away from the smoke with her five-year-old binoculars in both hands. . Her teenage son was running next to her, Kim said. A spokeswoman for Reuters confirmed that the woman had traveled from Honduras to Mexico with her five children
Kim followed the family as she rushed to Tijuana, crossing a river and climbing a mountain. concrete barrier. When they reached the top, one of the twins began to cry, her tiny face full of anxiety as she clung to what looks like a little ball of plastic. Kim said that the girl was directed to her bare feet. She had just lost her slippers.
Kim, who is Korean, does not speak Spanish and says that he could not ask the woman that from where she was coming from. Later, a colleague was able to find the family who had returned to the sports complex.
In an interview with Buzzfeed News, the woman, Maria Meza, 39, said that she and her five children were together. standing near the fence when border officials fired tear gas at them. She said that she had not tried to cross and that she was just looking across the border.
"I was scared, I wanted to cry, it was then that I caught my daughters and ran," said Meza. "I thought my children would die with me because of the gas we inhaled."
Kim, a Tokyo-based photographer, has been a photojournalist for Reuters for more than 15 years. He has covered natural disasters and photographing protests is not new to him. he has done so often in South Korea and elsewhere in Asia. But to cover the chaos on the other side of the globe is new.
"It's the first time I cover the history of migrants in Mexico," he said. "I realized … that we must tell the truth and tell the story by sharing images." I just captured the moment of what's going on there and then it became This has become an opportunity for more people to think about these migrant problems. "
Trump weighed Monday, calling on Mexico to" bring back the flag to his country by waving migrants, including many are unscrupulous criminals, "and threaten to close the border permanently.
In a statement released Monday. In the evening, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen advised parents to "refrain from any attempt to illegally enter our country – these acts will put your children at risk."
Migrants seeking asylum in the United States will remain while their claims will be examined by US courts. remains unclear. Trump had tweeted that the migrants would not be allowed to enter the United States until the courts approved their applications.
The Washington Post announced earlier that the new Mexican government had agreed to let migrants stay in this country while their asylum application was processed. But officials turned around after the Post's article sparked criticism that they were yielding to Trump's pressure. They deny having reached an agreement and declare that discussions with the Trump administration are ongoing.
– Joshua Partlow, Sarah Kinosian and Nick Miroff, of The Post, contributed to this article.
(With the exception of the title, this story was not edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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