'Records that have been created from, for example, the beginning of the Trump administration, are now perhaps in great danger of being destroyed,' said ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Eunice Cho.
The American Civil Liberties Union is racing against the clock to stop the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency from erasing countless documents on detention records, including records from the first year of the Trump administration.
Weekly monitoring reports of detention facilities, she warned, could already face erasure, including those from President Donald Trump's earliest days in office. The ACLU is set to file its FOIA request on Tuesday morning, with the organization seeking detention-related ICE records scheduled to be deleted after short retention periods of only three to seven years.
The ACLU has also said the recent development could not come at a worse time, with ICE having announced new facility standards last December that immigration advocates warn would lower oversight requirements and weaken protections for detainees. In a recent report, the Department of Homeland Security's own Officer of Inspector General asserted that ICE's oversight system had failed to"ensure adequate oversight or systemic improvements in detention conditions, with some deficiencies remaining unaddressed for years."
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