Donald Trump at a law enforcement roundtable on sanctuary cities in March with DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and acting ICE director Thomas Homan.

The Trump administration has made the clear strategic decision that showing pictures of little girls wailing post-separation or perhaps those of young girls trying to soothe smaller ones they don't even know in detention doesn't play into their all-immigrants-are-future-gang members election narrative. Thus, we have seen zero pictures of little girls in detention and also zero pictures of toddlers. All the government-released photos—and they are plenty disturbing—have been of little boys peering through the chain-linked cages they are jailed in. And not for lack of trying by reporters.

x Update on toddlers and girls: @HHSGov just offered me photos of facilities with girls and toddlers from 2016, long before zero tolerance was enacted.



I said no thanks.



Still trying to get in. — Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) June 19, 2018

During Monday’s ultra delayed White House briefing, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, now the poster girl for defending state-sponsored terror, denied having any awareness that her own agency had selectively shared only photos of boys.

“I am not familiar with those particular images,” Nielsen told reporters trying to suggest maybe Health and Human Services had released the photos, not DHS. When reporters confirmed the photos had indeed been released “by your department,” Nielsen said: “I will look into that.”

What that apparently means is that DHS is now on a mad dash to generate acceptable photos of girls and toddlers being held in detention and cared for by workers who, however well meaning, are prohibited from soothing them, picking them up, or any form of physical contact.