re: #207 The Vicious Babushka

“…While the photograph is legitimate, it is unclear exactly who wrote the numbers on these people’s arms, with Yahoo reporting that:

According to various advocates and others who observed the situation on the bridges over the summer, it was volunteers with the Mexican Red Cross who first created a waiting list to help maintain order within the encampments as asylum seekers waited for their turn to cross. The list was then transferred to the Casa del Migrante along with the asylum seekers when they were forced to move there in November. Accounts vary on when, exactly, and with whom the practice of tracking migrants with numbers on their arms originated, but it has now become a part of the process for all who wish to seek asylum at one of the U.S. ports of entry in El Paso.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/immigrants-numbers-arms/