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Daily Kos ArticleFormer Border Patrol Janitor Collected & Photographed Seized Migrant Belongings (Original Post) bdamomma Jun 2018 OP
Some of those items look quite valuable nuxvomica Jun 2018 #1
Read the article, we're throwing away their IDs, wallets, money, keys sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #2
Who are they to decide what items are secondwind Jun 2018 #3
The similarities are terrifying! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #4
Excellent question. But my guess is any who did Hortensis Jun 2018 #5

nuxvomica

(12,470 posts)
1. Some of those items look quite valuable
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:24 AM
Jun 2018

Two gold forks and possibly silverware, and probably some expensive rosaries. I was intrigued by the water jigs covered in fabric. Does that just make them easier to carry or does it allow them to cool the water by soaking the fabric?

sinkingfeeling

(51,499 posts)
2. Read the article, we're throwing away their IDs, wallets, money, keys
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:00 AM
Jun 2018

and anything we feel like. If there is a God, hope he can forgive us.

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
3. Who are they to decide what items are
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:00 AM
Jun 2018

“non-essential” items??! Why take away their rosary beads??

This is too reminiscent of the Hocaust.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Excellent question. But my guess is any who did
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 05:59 AM
Jun 2018

would refuse to recognize any similarity. It's not our imagination -- psychologists say they are really good at fooling themselves. No surprise. They practice almost constantly.

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