You’ve no doubt read about the awful practice of separating children from their parents at the US/Mexico border, something put in place by the Trump Administration, and an example of the needless cruelty of this racist regime. In a separate but related post by The New Yorker, they focus on the seized belongings of migrants crossing the border, documenting the scale and scope of the human impact. Tom Kiefer, a Customs and Border Protection janitor began taking items out of the trash years back, not knowing what he was going to do with them, but knowing their was a project there somewhere. His collections have become “El Sueño Americano”, or The American Dream, a photographic look at some of the mundane, familiar, and relatable items that customs seizes from migrants trying to cross the border.
