--- description: John Moore's photograph of a two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker at the U.S.-Mexico border is featured on the July 2 cover of TIME title: The Story Behind TIME's Trump 'Welcome To America' Cover image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt158ded44d1a83ffd/69893387096a94446d6a2b8a/cover-socail-image.jpg?branch=production ---  * [Press Room](/section/press-room/) ## Press Room Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Story Behind TIME's Trump 'Welcome to America' Cover by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 21, 2018 11:00 AM CUT  TIME Photo-Illustration. Photographs by Getty Images by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 21, 2018 11:00 AM CUT John Moore, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for Getty Images, has been photographing immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border for years. This week one of his pictures became the most visible symbol of the immigration debate in America. “This one was tough for me. As soon as it was over, they were put into a van. I had to stop and take deep breaths,” [Moore told TIME Tuesday](http://time.com/longform/john-moore-getty-photo-separation/?xid=tcoshare "undefined"), describing his reaction to the scene of a two-year-old Honduran girl crying as her mother was being detained in McAllen, Texas. “All I wanted to do was pick her up. But I couldn’t.”  John Moore—Getty Images John Moore—Getty Images Due to the power of the image, which appeared as critics from across the political spectrum attacked President Trump’s now-reversed policy of separating children from parents who are being detained for illegally entering the United States, TIME’s editors selected Moore’s photograph to create a photo illustration, including Trump, to make [the July 2, 2018, cover of the magazine](http://time.com/magazine "undefined").  TIME Photo-Illustration. Photographs by Getty Images [To see more of Moore’s pictures from the border, click here.](http://time.com/longform/john-moore-getty-photo-separation/?xid=tcoshare "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5317522/donald-trump-border-cover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5317522/donald-trump-border-cover/"},"headline":"The Story Behind TIME's Trump 'Welcome to America' Cover","datePublished":"2018-06-21T11:00:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:57:44.824Z","description":"John Moore's photograph of a two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker at the U.S.-Mexico border is featured on the July 2 cover of TIME","url":"https://time.com/5317522/donald-trump-border-cover/","keywords":["Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt158ded44d1a83ffd/69893387096a94446d6a2b8a/cover-socail-image.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Press Room","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt158ded44d1a83ffd/69893387096a94446d6a2b8a/cover-socail-image.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Social / Welcome to America Trump Immigration Time Magazine cover","caption":"Welcome to America Trump Immigration Time Magazine cover","creditText":"TIME Photo-Illustration. Photographs by Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/press-room/","name":"Press Room"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5317522/donald-trump-border-cover/","name":"The Story Behind TIME's Trump 'Welcome to America' Cover"}}]}] ```