加州起诉阻旧金山国家档案馆关闭 馆藏含《排华法案》移民案卷
San Bruno——加州总检察长罗布·邦塔（Rob Bonta）10月14日提起诉讼，挑战美国国家档案与记录管理局（NARA）关闭旧金山国家档案馆、将馆藏转往全国其他馆舍的决定。诉讼已提交至加州北区联邦地方法院，邦塔指该关闭决定违反《行政程序法》，应予阻止。
旧金山国家档案馆位于San Bruno，藏有逾75000立方英尺来自北加州与中加州、夏威夷、内华达州大部、关岛与美属萨摩亚联邦机构的档案，历史逾175年。馆藏包括移民、法院与家谱记录，其中有原住民寄宿学校记录、《排华法案》时期的移民案卷，以及日裔囚禁相关案件记录，包括二战时拒绝报到囚禁、起诉美国政府的是松（Fred Korematsu）案卷。
2026年6月，旧金山档案馆员工收到电邮，称NARA计划在未来几年内关闭该馆与Chicago档案馆，并将「在未来几个月内」开始搬移档案。今年8月，NARA宣布馆藏将转往全美五处国家档案馆舍；转运最快本周启动，首批拟将NASA档案转往德州沃思堡的馆舍。
邦塔表示：「加州不会袖手旁观，看着特朗普政府把讲述一代代移民、原住民部落社区和加州家庭故事的记录搬走。旧金山国家档案馆的馆藏可追溯至1850年加州建州之初。这些记录讲述了不公的故事、我国历史上一些痛苦的篇章，以及亲历其境、为权利抗争的人们和社区。这些记录属于这里，我会为把它们留在这里而战。」
加州多家机构依赖该馆档案开展法定研究：州立公园部门及承建商在修缮天使岛营房期间曾十余次到馆查档，加州大学教授也派学生到馆查阅只能现场调阅的亚裔美国人历史材料。全国国家档案馆藏中已数字化的不足4%，部分档案过于脆弱、无法数字化。诉讼请求法院撤销关闭决定，并禁止将档案转出San Bruno馆舍。
California Sues to Block Closure of San Francisco National Archives, Home to Chinese Exclusion Era Files
SAN BRUNO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta on October 14 filed a lawsuit challenging the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) decision to close the National Archives at San Francisco and transfer its holdings to other facilities across the country. In the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Bonta argues the closure decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act and should be blocked.
Located in San Bruno, the San Francisco National Archives holds more than 75,000 cubic feet of records from federal agencies in Northern and Central California, Hawaii, most of Nevada, Guam and American Samoa, with records dating back more than 175 years. Its holdings include immigration, court and genealogical records, including Indian boarding school records and immigration case files from the Chinese Exclusion Act era, as well as case records related to Japanese American internment, including those from the famous case of Fred Korematsu, who sued the United States to challenge his arrest for refusing to report for internment during World War II.
In June 2026, an email to employees at the San Francisco Archives said NARA planned to close the facility, along with the Chicago Archives, within the next few years, and would start moving records "within the next few months." In August, NARA announced the records would be transferred to five different National Archives facilities around the United States. That transfer could begin as soon as this week, with planned transfers of NASA records to the National Archives facility in Fort Worth, Texas.
"California won't stand idly by while the Trump Administration hauls away records that tell the stories of generations of immigrants, Tribal communities, and California families," Bonta said. "The San Francisco National Archives holds records going back to 1850, when California was just becoming a state. These records tell the story of injustice, of some of the painful chapters of our nation's history, and the people and communities who lived through them and fought for their rights. These records belong here, and I'll fight to keep them here."
California agencies rely on the archives for legally required research: state parks staff and contractors visited the facility more than ten times during the refurbishment of the Angel Island barracks, and University of California professors send students there to research Asian American history using material available only in person. Less than 4 percent of National Archives records nationwide are digitized, and some are too fragile to digitize. The lawsuit asks the court to vacate the closure decision and prohibit the transfer of records from the San Bruno facility.
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图片来源：图：1942年，日裔家庭在圣布鲁诺登上迁离巴士——旧金山国家档案馆藏有日裔囚禁与《排华法案》时期的移民案卷（国家档案馆馆藏照片，Dorothea Lange摄，公共领域）。Japanese American families boarding an evacuation bus in San Bruno in 1942 (National Archives photo by Dorothea Lange, public domain).
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