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In early June 2018, we received numerous e-mails from readers about a Facebook post showing immigrant children in orange jumpsuits: Several included a link to a Facebook post shared by Occupy Democrats on 8 June 2018: Neither the caption nor the image text used any immigration-specific wording, but no source for the photographs was provided. A reverse image search shows that the image appeared online as early as 2014 (and possibly earlier): The photograph was originally used to illustrate a claim that in the United States, prisons are constructed more frequently than schools: In 2014, the photograph accompanied an article about schools and prisons. It appears to be a still from the following video from Californians for Safety and Justice: The image likely caught on because of a real photograph that was leaked from a Texas courtroom which shows the mass trials that result from the Trump administration's so-called zero tolerance immigration policy, along with a story that appeared in The Intercept:
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