BackInTex wrote: Other versions of the story tell a different story (no smugglers) but also no separation from her mother at the border.
Accepting the Reuters version rather than the alt right version of the story, we have a woman who runs away from her husband, taking an infant with her. In the United States, when something like this occurs, it's very often a case of a woman fleeing a case of domestic abuse. My hunch would be that Honduras probably doesn't have a very robust family protective services infrastructure in place so that an abused woman there would probably have even fewer options than in the U.S.
Is it any surprise that the father would paint the child's mother in as bad a light as possible?
News photographers take photos that convey the essence of what's going on. They often can't verify every detail. The two most powerful photos of the Vietnam war were of the naked crying girl and the man shooting a prisoner in the head. I don't think the photographers chased down the facts on those photos, which didn't make them any more accurate as conveying the essence of what was happening in Vietnam.
In any event, the proof will be in the pudding as we see how many of the existing detainees are reunited with their parents and how quickly that occurs.