Discussion: ICE Seeks To Destroy Records On Detainee Deaths, Sexual Abuse

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Need some context on this action.

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Files on sexual assault and abuse, the appraiser wrote, do “not document actions of Federal officials,” a key condition of records worth preserving, from NARA’s standpoint.

So if ICE isn’t part of the Federal government, what is it?

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Right. I’m not a fan of ICE, but what are the requirements for federal penitentiaries or other federal facilities that house people?

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If ICE is finding it incredibly burdensome to retain these records, that tells me that they’ve got a larger problem than they want to admit. Just how many deaths and sexual assaults are we talking about, here? How voluminous are these records?

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Bingo!

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Wtf? This doesn’t make sense. You can save the records. Something is off.