New York: A powerful cover of Time magazine has struck a chord in the US, capturing national anguish over immigration policy by placing a crying immigrant girl at the feet of US President Donald Trump.

"Welcome to America," the headline on the poignant cover says.

The crying two-year-old girl is a cut-out from a now-iconic photograph by Getty photographer John Moore that went viral in the US and became a symbol of the Trump administration's new "zero tolerance" border policy.

She was depicted screaming while a US Customs and Border Patrol agent patted down her mother at a border crossing in southern Texas' Rio Grande Valley.