By The paper has now claimed this was not done for editorial reasons, and other examples of the tweet remain on its timeline.
Sun columnist @KTHopkins says you may as well set up a Libya to Italy P&O ferry http://t.co/GU0bJcITE1 pic.twitter.com/4mYlBmuit1
ā The Sun (@TheSun) April 17, 2015
The piece published five months ago appears at odds with today's front page, which features an image of a dead Syrian child found on a Turkish beach and calls for Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene in the ongoing refugee crisis.
Hopkins's column - which is still live on The Sun's website - starts: "No, I don't care.
"Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don't care."
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The Sun's front page headline today reads: "It's life and death."
Don't believe me? Here's everyone sharing that tweet last night, which is now mysteriously missing this morning. https://t.co/IJq2yfPnEt
ā Paul Lomax (@PaulLomax) September 3, 2015
The editorial begins: "Mr Cameron, summer is over... Now deal with the biggest crisis facing Europe since WW2
"One drowned as his parents fled war-torn Syria for safety in Europe. The other was born at a refugee camp at a rail station.
"These two children became heartbreaking symbols of the migrant crisis engulfing the continent.
"Today, The Sun urges David Cameron to help those in a life-and-death struggle not of their making."
However, the editorial also adds: "That is very different from buckling to the tide of migrants seeking solely to escape poverty back home by scrambling to enter Britain illegally.
"They are not persecuted. They are fleeing no-one... Of course sorting genuine asylum seekers from economic migrants is hard.
"Especially when the latter pose as the former. We can only commit resources to carrying out rigorous checks."
Digital Spy has reached out to Katie Hopkins's representatives for comment.
A Parliament UK petition calling for Britain to "accept more asylum seekers and increase support for refugee migrants in the UK" has already attracted over 173,469 signatures.
UPDATED: While The Sun deleted a tweet promoting Sun+ with the quote from Katie Hopkins's column, the paper claims this was due to a clash with an existing tweet or duplication. Other examples of the tweet remain, as featured in this article.
