US-Mexico migration crisis: can shocking photograph trigger policy change?

Image of drowned migrant father and toddler daughter provokes widespread anger

US-Mexico migrant crisis
Migrants are held in El Paso, Texas, before they are returned to Mexico to prepare their asylum cases
(Image credit: Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images)

This article contains a photograph that some readers will find distressing

A horrifying photograph of a drowned migrant father and his young daughter at the US-Mexico border has been compared to the image of three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi that swung opinion on the European migrant crisis four years ago.

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