By Peter Funt

The little girl at the border with tears in her eyes. We saw her on front pages, on TV newscasts and on the cover of Time magazine.

It’s a powerful image – perhaps more responsible than anything else for forcing a change in the administration’s policy on separating kids from parents in immigration cases.

Yet, as we learned a few days later, this particular child was never separated from her mother. At the moment the photo was taken, the mother was being frisked by b...