This is in response to the 2017 New Yorker story linked below, which recently got new legs on Twitter. It’s important to note that these confiscations have been going on since the Bush and Obama administrations–but at least then we weren’t confiscating children, and it’s hard to imagine the situation won’t get worse under Trump. You should read the article and look at the accompanying slide show.

The New Yorker: A Janitor Preserves the Seized Belongings of Migrants