Personal belongings left behind, including files and passports that could prove crucial in processing claims.
They were for a six-year-old boy and showed a steel rod in his spine. Some coalition volunteers began cleaning up the Yuma stretch of border. The county placed two large dumpsters nearby. 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. Some senior US Border Patrol figures are chiming in. He has found rosaries, diaper bags, purses, airline ticket stubs and used face masks.