Opinion

A Sobering Photograph Captures Detained Migrants’ Cry for Help

The aerial image of 34 men spelling out a distress signal from a Texas detention center stands in defiance of a government that wants to crowd our field of vision.

Valentina Di Liscia

April 30, 2025 — 2 min read

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. (© Reuters/Paul Ratje)

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