When the U.S. Deports You — And Keeps All Your Stuff: It's more than humiliating.

The US deportation process is designed to be humiliating. It is designed to deterred migrants from crossing the US border a second time. However, some of it appears to be criminal as well. 

Migrants deported from the US do not always receive the belongings which they possessed upon getting picked up by US authorities. According to the Migration Policy Institute,

"[A]n estimated 120,000 people are deported to Mexico from the U.S. each year without at least some of their most vital belongings, including cash, identification, and cell phones."

A 2016 agreement between the US and Mexico was supposed to stop this from happening.

Migrants are often returned to a foreign city across the US - Mexico border in an already vulnerable state. Depriving them of their cash, identification, and cell phones simply enhances their insecurity. And even when they are repatriated to Mexico with their money, they are often giving it in check form drawn from a US bank. That does the migrants little good in Mexico. "Entrepreneurs" will then offer to cash their checks for them in return for a sizable commission. It gets worse when you learn that some of the money that the migrants possess came as compensation for forced labor in detention facilities.

It's more than humiliating.