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After scathing GAO report, Border Patrol agents ordered to stop tossing out migrants’ belongings

WASHINGTON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection has directed agents to stop discarding migrants’ personal belongings, after a scathing report detailing how medicine, clothes, cell phones, cash and identity documents have been taken by authorities at holding facilities and never returned. The new rules classify legal documents, contact information and religious items as “essential personal […]

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