Introduction – June 26, 2019

The left-hand part of this photo has been widely published by the Atlantist Press. The victim, a Syrian Kurd child, Aylan Kurdi, is supposed to have been washed up by the sea. However, his corpse is perpendicular to the waves instead of being parallel. On the right-hand part, the presence of an official Turkish photographer reinforces the suggestion of a staged event. In the background we can see people bathing. Click to enlarge.

Call me a cynic but I don’t buy the storyline that goes with the photo of the Rio Grande drowning (below). The photo has been compared to that of Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian boy who purportedly drowned off the Greek Island of Kos in 2015, and that’s the problem. Because that particular photo is now widely acknowledged as having been staged.

It’s a crucial fact that the following Guardian report pointedly fails to mention. The Guardian isn’t alone. Many other mainstream media outlets also reference Aylan Kurdi in reporting the Rio Grande incident and they make exactly the same omission.

To make matters worse, Abdullah Kurdi, Aylan’s father was later accused of being a “people smuggler” himself. While his own version of events surrounding the supposed death of his son is riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies. Raising questions about whether the photo of Aylan was staged as part of a broader psyop and whether Abdullah was paid to participate.

Now I’m not saying that the photo of the drowned father and daughter in Rio Grande has been similarly staged. They may have genuinely drowned but the media’s response has been remarkably similar to coverage of Aylan Kurdi’s purported fate.

This raises the question of whether the elite was waiting for some sort of tragedy to occur? Is the elite owned and controlled media now following instructions on how to cover the incident? Are they now trying to cultivate a collective sense of guilt among Americans through their coverage of the drowning?

Cultivating a sense of guilt is an old trick. It had has be done with every ‘minority’ (except White males, of course), many of whom are not strictly speaking even minorities. Jews, Gays, Blacks have all been used in a similar fashion.

Now it appears that refugees/migrants are being used to engender a sense of guilt among White Americans, which will no doubt then be manipulated and exploited politically. Ed.

Shocking photo of drowned father and daughter highlights migrants’ border peril

Patrick Timmons, David Agren – The Guardian June 26, 2019

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The grim reality of the migration crisis unfolding on America’s southern border has been captured in photographs showing the lifeless bodies of a Salvadoran father and his daughter who drowned as they attempted to cross the Rio Grande into Texas.

The images, taken on Monday, show Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, 26, and his daughter Valeria, lying face down in shallow water. The 23-month-old toddler’s arm is draped around her father’s neck, suggesting that she was clinging to him in her final moments.

The UN refugee agency compared the photograph to the 2015 image of the three-year-old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi who drowned off the Greek island of Kos – although it remains to be seen if it will have the same impact on America’s fierce immigration debate.

Their bodies were discovered on the bank of the river near Matamoros, Mexico, across from Brownsville, Texas, just half a mile (1km) from an international bridge.

According to Julia Le Duc, a reporter for La Jornada, Martínez Ramírez had arrived in Matamoros on Sunday, hoping to request asylum from US authorities with his wife, Vanessa Ávalos, and their daughter.

But when he realized that it could be weeks before they were even able to start the asylum process, Martínez decided they should swim across, said Le Duc, who witnessed Ávalos give her account to the police.

“He crossed first with the little girl and he left her on the American side. Then he turned back to get his wife, but the girl went into the water after him. When he went to save her, the current took them both,” Le Duc told the Guardian.

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