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.

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…