The Trump administration wants to expedite erasure of records of immigrant detention and human rights abuses. ICE is asking the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) for permission to destroy records documenting sexual assaults and deaths in detention after 20 years and solitary confinement after three years. (If You Only News, August 29, 2017, by Tim Abel)
ICE also wants to destroy records of alternatives to detention, detention monitoring reports, logs about detainees, and complaints from the public about abuses. The ACLU is concerned that with the uptick in the number of detainees, ICE is dodging transparency over conditions immigrants face in detention camps. (American Civil Liberties Union, August 28, 2017, by Victoria Lopez)