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It's Not Trash, It's People's Belongings: A Q&A with Noah Schramm from the ACLU
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It's Not Trash, It's People's Belongings: A Q&A with Noah Schramm from the ACLU

A new report from ACLU and immigration rights organizations on what Congress and CBP can do to end Border Patrol's longstanding practice of trashing asylum seekers' belongings.

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Feb 20, 2024
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Two dumpsters with items that Border Patrol required asylum seekers to leave behind in Yuma, Arizona, in April 2022. (Photo credit: Melissa del Bosque)

So much of the national debate about the U.S.-Mexico border is influenced by optics and politics. Often, what the rest of the nation sees is not what’s really happening on the ground.

And so it goes with a…

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