Items pile up at US-Mexico border as migrants forced to dump belongings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : And USBP noted it was Earth Day on 22 April by posting pictures on Instagram of asylum seekers' belongings with the message that it was "trash and litter left behind by illegal immigration".
56% : When Border Patrol shows up, they tell them to drop everything and get in line."
52% : Most of those arriving to seek asylum are from Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Romania, or other eastern European countries.
52% : Border residents in Arizona and Texas have observed an increasing number of personal belongings left along the US side of the border wall in the last two years.
51% : They also persuaded border patrol to provide shade structures and water for arriving asylum seekers.
47% : In some parts of Texas, so many belongings are left behind that border patrol use heavy machinery to "shove it off into piles at the side of the road," said Scott Nicol, an environmental activist and artist based in McAllen, near the easternmost point of the US-Mexico border.
47% : The Guardian sent images of passports, birth certificates and other documents found at the border wall to Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency overseeing border agents, and requested comment on whether agents were telling asylum seekers to leave their documents behind, and in some cases ripping them up.
46% : Every day, hundreds of people arrive at gaps in this stretch of border wall to request political asylum from uniformed federal border agents who stand waiting under a rudimentary metal shade structure in the Sonoran desert heat.
46% : So instead migrants arrive at ad-hoc places like these gaps in the wall, alongside the dried-up bed of the Colorado River, to exercise their right to request asylum.
45% : CBP declined to respond to the questions.
28% : When asked about the personal items left behind, CBP wrote in an email that border patrol has a "policy prohibiting certain items deemed a health hazard, that includes wet or moldy clothes, from entering CBP facilities."

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