The National Archives Is Deleting Records About Trump’s ICE Policies | The Takeaway | WNYC...

Last month, the National Archives came under fire for altering an image of the 2017 Women’s March to blur a protest signs critical of Trump. The archive claims their act was non-partisan and they were trying to avoid offending visitors.
But the controversy raised more questions about how else the National Archives is altering historical records and how that might affect the ability of future journalists and historians to report and write about the Trump administration and its agencies.
In 2017 the Archives agreed to let Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials delete or destroy documents that detail the sexual abuse and death of undocumented immigrants, and despite received tens of thousands of comments and hearing the objections of dozens of lawmakers, they moved forward with a plan last month.
To understand more, The Takeaway spoke with Matthew Connelly, Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of the recent op-ed in the New York Times “Why You May Never Learn the Truth About ICE.”