Stelter: Pictures of Migrant Caravan Trying to Enter Mexico Being ‘Weaponized’

‘These pictures from the Guatemala-Mexico border certainly are powerful’

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STELTER: "Why I left the right, and Dara Lin. These pictures from the Guatemala-Mexico border certainly are powerful. Right now, some of the migrants are trying to enter Mexico. The government is trying to stop them from moving north to the U.S. How do you see them being weaponized right now?"
LIND: "They’re gripping, and more than that, the image of a mass of people moving through crossing bridges and rivers indicate that it feels like an invading force. And what a picture or a clip doesn’t do is show you where it is, how far it might be from the U.S., so when people are talking about a border crisis, it makes it feel like a mass of human the imagery over and over again of thousands of people surging forward in a settlement like this when you’re playing clips alongside people talking, it making them feel like they be under siege."

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