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In reply to the discussion: They took their rosaries.... [View all]demmiblue
(36,845 posts)52. What garbage at a US Border Patrol facility reveals about the migrant journey
PRI's The World
October 09, 2015 · 1:00 PM EDT
By Monica Campbell
Tom Kiefer worked as a janitor and groundskeeper at the US Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Ajo, Arizona.
Its about 40 miles from the US-Mexico border and its where migrants detained by agents at the border await their next step in their either successful or failed journey to the United States. Many will face deportation back home, mostly to Mexico or parts of Central America.
It was sometime in the fourth year when Kiefer, a photographer, started noticing and photographing trends among the items tossed into the trash at the holding facility. Like being processed at jail, migrants are stripped of their personal belongings.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-10-09/what-garbage-us-border-patrol-facility-reveals-about-migrant-journey
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My family went to Dachau 1960 when Dad was stationed in Germany. It had not been
japple
Jun 2019
#33
Japple, that is a striking, thoughtful description. I hope you'll publish your observations.
DemocracyMouse
Jun 2019
#44
It may not be true. There is no authority for it yet. Verify, verify, verify.
Honeycombe8
Jun 2019
#13
Yes. Verify. More and more posts are being published w/o authority, & some aren't true.
Honeycombe8
Jun 2019
#16
News has become a profit center, not what it was, an information channel for people. nt
Blue_true
Jun 2019
#28
Correct - as the article about the photographer said, Border Patrol is just throwing these things
csziggy
Jun 2019
#23
You have a cite for that? A link to where this came from? It may or may not be true. Verify. nt
Honeycombe8
Jun 2019
#11
"A photo of rosaries taken from migrants at the US border became a viral symbol ..."
sl8
Jun 2019
#21
Personally I don't care who took rosaries, soap, tooth paste, etc away from asylum seekers.
pazzyanne
Jun 2019
#49
Absolutely - But when something it is so easy to estabslish that Obama and Bush did
Ms. Toad
Jun 2019
#65
What garbage at a US Border Patrol facility reveals about the migrant journey
demmiblue
Jun 2019
#52
Oh brother. They take anything that can be used as a weapon and anything of value due to robbery
Opel_Justwax
Jun 2019
#53