How TV sounds and images of migrant children overrode the pundits and changed the immigration debate

For all the partisan panels and scream-fests that now pass as television news, all the dueling narratives across conspiracy-minded websites, all the social media accounts dedicated to pushing biased agendas no matter the truth or consequences, it was the quiet cries of two distressed children, and the dialogue-free images of dozens more locked in cages, that broke through the noise.

There had been reports about the separation of undocumented immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexican border, children ripped from their parents and detained in undisclosed centers as a