The closure of the ombudsman’s office adds to the lack of oversight of immigration jails nationwide, despite the Trump administration’s efforts to surge detention capacity.

Earlier this year, a record 73,000 people were being held in immigration detention facilities, CBS News reported, though that number has recently decreased slightly to around 60,000.

The closure of OIDO “fits in with a larger strategy here, of trying to get people to give up on their immigration cases — and give up on their asylum cases — by holding out the threat of detention and making sure that that detention will be in the most miserable conditions possible,” Adam Isaacson of the Washington Office on Latin America, co-author of a recent report on the “dismantling” of DHS oversight bodies, told HuffPost Monday.

Homeland Security officials have plainly said at times that the brutal conditions in detention are meant to incentivize people to “self-deport,” or abandon their legal immigration cases and return to their home countries as a way of leaving detention.