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The seesaw at the US-Mexico border is a powerful yet disturbing symbol

Oonagh Keating. Updated July 31st, 2019

Donald Trump’s border wall is making progress, although it isn’t a wall – it’s a fence, and Mexico isn’t paying for it – US taxpayers are, and that may or may not include the President. The border agency, ICE, has been detaining those entering the country, separating children from their families and keeping them in what are effectively concentration camps.

One installation, however, reminds us that children are children, no matter what their circumstances.

The emotive sight has made quite an impression, with almost 12 million views so far, and hundreds of thousands of reactions, with some people as touched as others were horrified – but all were shaken.

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Edisson Fuentes posted this similarly moving and horrific image, from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

This Martin Luther King quotation somehow seemed to describe the situation perfectly.

Source: Mauricio Martínez