ICE Plans to Start Destroying Records of Immigrant Abuse, Including Sexual Assault and Deaths

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The article is from August 2017.

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Just recently, 🚔 finally caught the Golden State Killer … 44 years after 1st murder. He went on to kill 11 more & rape > 50. Destroying evidence of violent crime endangers the public bc there’s never only one victim.
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ICE Plans to Start Destroying Records of Immigrant Abuse, Including Sexual Assault and Deaths in Custody

By Victoria Lopez, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Prison Project
AUGUST 28, 2017 | 4:00 PM

Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently asked the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), which instructs federal agencies on how to maintain records, to approve its timetable for retaining or destroying records related to its detention operations. This may seem like a run-of-the-mill government request for record-keeping efficiency. It isn’t. An entire paper trail for a system rife with human rights and constitutional abuses is at stake.

ICE has asked for permission to begin routinely destroying 11 kinds of records, including those related to sexual assaults, solitary confinement and even deaths of people in its custody. Other records subject to destruction include alternatives to detention programs, regular detention monitoring reports, logs about the people detained in ICE facilities, and communications from the public reporting detention abuses. ICE proposed various timelines for the destruction of these records ranging from 20 years for sexual assault and death records to three years for reports about solitary confinement.

For years, advocates and communities across the country have denounced human rights abuses in the detention system. Many of the records that ICE proposes for destruction offer proof of the mistreatment endured by people in detention. Given the Trump administration’s plans to increase the size and scope of the system substantially, it is all the more disturbing that the agency wants to reduce transparency and accountability.

NARA has provisionally approved ICE’s proposal and its explanations for doing so are troubling. In cases of sexual assault and death, for example, NARA states that these records “do not document significant actions of Federal officials.” It’s hard to believe that the actions of a federal official are not significant in the death or sexual assault of an individual who is in federal immigration custody. NARA also posited that in cases of sexual assault, that the “information is highly sensitive and does not warrant retention.”

[MythosMaster]

1. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

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2. Is it true that the feds have "misplaced" 1,475 migrant children?

I read here yesterday that they are gone. Vanished into foster homes or worse, and that some may have been turned over to human traffickers.

I don’t recognize this country anymore.

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3. That the National Archives would approve this monstrous request is proof that we are now in 1938

Germany.