TIME Photo-Illustration. Welcome to America. 2018. Photoshop. Time.com. 10/25/18
The cover for TIME magazine shows a red background with a little girl, dressed in a pink shirt, cuffed jeans, and pink sneakers, in the center looking up at President Donald Trump who is standing at the far right of the page in front of the little girl. He is looking down on her and he is wearing a full suit and tie. It looks as though he is smiling at the crying girl. At the far left of the cover, the words "Welcome to America" are written in a small, white font. In the top middle of the page is the name of the magazine, TIME, in big bold, black letters. A bit of back story to the cover is in early 2018, President Trump had signed an order stating that children of illegal immigrants should be held in camps in the United States, away from their parents.The little girl in the cover of this magazine is part of a photograph a photographer took on his visit to the camps. He was shocked at how inhumane the treatment was towards the children. The little girl was crying for her parents and that sight really pulled the heart strings of the photographer. He submitted the image to Time magazine and they turned it into the cover of one of their editions. This image speaks volumes on the treatment of illegal immigrants and their children by the US government, mainly by the president.
For years, the United States of America has had problems with illegal immigrants coming into the country, but no president had been so inhumane towards them until Donald Trump created the 'no tolerance' policy in April 2018. This policy stated that children had to be separated from their parents if the family was caught at the border. Families were torn apart and that left children and parents afraid and upset. The image on the cover of TIME magazine shows how children felt when they were torn away from their parents from the president of 'the land of the free'. It shows how little Trump cares about families and what they go through.
America is usually seen as a free country where dreams come true and a place for future generations to become successful and happy, but in the cover for TIME magazine, the statement 'welcome to America' shows that the U.S. is not the country most foreigners think it is. What is shown is that the U.S. does not care for people who come here illegally; they are seen in a way that makes them feel isolated. The phrase 'welcome to America', to people who are in cages at the border, says to the people they have to figure their lives out on their own.
The cover for TIME magazine shows how the Trump administration, portrayed by Trump himself on the cover, is behaving towards illegal immigrants and their children, shown by the crying little girl with the words ' Welcome to America' implying that America is a country where the only people who get sympathy are American citizens. People reacted to this image in ways that were unimaginable. Many realized that the U.S. is not as great as foreigners think it is.
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