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Your Tired, Your Poor… But What About Your Refugees?

“…the U.S. is no longer the world’s top country for refugee admissions… The decline in U.S. refugee admissions comes at a time when the number of refugees worldwide has reached the highest levels since World War II.

– Jens Manuel Rogstad, “Key facts about refugees to the U.S.”, Pew Research Center

When I read these words while researching for my infographic, I shook my head in disbelief. There are more people that need help, but the U.S. government is reducing any effort to help them.

Thus, I decided I needed to highlight this tragic disparity: though more refugees need to be resettled, the U.S. is turning them away. It’s unacceptable.

I also wanted my infographic to call my audience to action (demanding change from their state representative). As a result, I created this infographic on Canva:

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Latin America’s Last Stand

This post discusses the iconic photo and the manipulations I made to the featured image above.
To see the original sources of each photo in this post, click on the photo.

When Luis Orlando Lagos took this 1973 photo of Salvador Allende leaving his presidential palace, he never thought his photo would cement Allende’s tragic image in Latin American history.

Allende leaves La Moneda, the presidential palace in Chile. (Photo: Luis Orlando Lagos, courtesy of TIME’s 100 Most Iconic Photos collection)
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