ICE is supposed to keep records, and the courts are supposed to create a transparent record in the case of a dispute.

But ICE hid the evidence and prevented the courts from looking into it.

You got a source for that?

The habeas petition for VMS (the two year old) indicates the father (who was not detained at the time of the filing) transferred provisional custody rights to a US citizen relative, and that communications with the mother (who was removed along with their US citizen child) were cut off when he tried to share their lawyers contact info

PDF: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.21...