Ivanka Trump's Gown Draws Comparisons to Blankets Used by Detained Immigrant Children

While Ivanka Trump continues to stay silent on the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents, Twitter has started taking her to task with a very pointed comparison. (The Daily Beast reports that President Donald Trump said in a closed-door meeting with Republican representatives that Ivanka has asked him to end the policy; at publish time, she has not taken a public stance on the matter.)

It all started Sunday night, when Someecards writer Orli Matlow (@HireMeImFunny) uploaded a photo of immigrant children detained at a facility in McAllen, Texas, wrapped in silver thermal blankets next to one of Ivanka Trump in a silver gown. "Who wore it better: Children detained in McAllen, Texas or Ivanka Trump," Matlow wrote in the caption.

The tweet has since gone viral, helped no doubt by a retweet from Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus. As People reported, other Twitter users have piggybacked off of Matlow's tweet with variations of their own. Meanwhile, other users have replied condemning the policy and the treatment of many other children detained like those in the photo.

Matlow's tweet was published on the same day that hundreds of protesters marched to a Texas "tent city" where children have been detained. The march, organized by Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke and El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar, was aimed at protesting the "zero-tolerance policy" announced back in April by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, which calls for an "escalated effort to prosecute" individuals who cross the border without documentation. As Teen Vogue previously reported, while the policy doesn't explicitly order for families to be separated, the tougher enforcement of the policy results in children being separated from their parents.

The day after the march, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen held a press briefing in which she blamed Congress for the policy and insisted that the family separations were not a result of policies enacted by the Trump administration. Two days prior, President Donald Trump blamed the policy on the Democrats. As Teen Vogue previously reported, these statements have been refuted by fact-checkers at PolitiFact and The New York Times, which found that the separations are indeed a result of the Trump administration's policy.

During the press conference, Nielsen was also asked about viral images and audio of what is thought to be detained migrant children crying, to which she responded by saying she was "not familiar with those particular images."

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