Trump admin says video footage inside ICE facility at center of class action lawsuit 'cannot be produced'
Source: Law & Crime
Nov 14th, 2025, 12:12 pm
The agency synonymous with immigration enforcement may find itself in hot water after losing some key pieces of discovery in a lawsuit about conditions at an Illinois detention facility. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice admitted to the apparent snafu in a 10-page joint written status report on discovery.
Chief among the missing files is 13 days' worth of video footage recorded at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, according to the status report.
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all," the filing reads. The plaintiffs, for their part, say they are "in the process of hiring an IT contractor" who will work with ICE's discovery liaison and attorneys "to attempt to work through issues concerning the missing video, including whether any content is able to be retrieved."
The missing footage will be pursued, at least in some fashion, the status report says, but the plaintiffs say the issue is not paramount. "While Plaintiffs intend to explore the issue of missing footage, Plaintiffs have communicated to Defendants that they are most concerned with obtaining the available surveillance videos as quickly as possible," the joint filing by the government and plaintiffs goes on.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/irretrievably-destroyed-trump-admin-says-video-footage-inside-ice-facility-at-center-of-class-action-lawsuit-cannot-be-produced-in-line-with-courts-discovery-order/
Full headline: 'Irretrievably destroyed': Trump admin says video footage inside ICE facility at center of class action lawsuit 'cannot be produced' in line with court's discovery order
Link to STATUS REPORT (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26277117-moreno-v-noem-discovery-report/
Link to STATUS REPORT (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26277117/moreno-v-noem-discovery-report.pdf
fargone
(502 posts)Javaman
(64,912 posts)they either burned it or it will eventually come out.
bluestarone
(20,780 posts)Lose DAYS and weeks, and months of testimony, videos and lots of other things in the future. MARK my word on that. That's who they are.
Blue Owl
(57,913 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(16,858 posts)and in as much as the funding goes through Congress, then the Dems can cut or outright eliminate funding for these ICEholes and then start issuing subpoenas for each and every one of these Nazis.
oldinmtdem92
(93 posts)the assholes would put us all in concentration camps, they are nazies ,fascist ,perverts .justice is a dream at this point.
EarthFirst
(3,894 posts)the sick fucks cannot help sharing the really heinous violations among themselves.
KS Toronado
(22,086 posts)sinkingfeeling
(56,780 posts)sheshe2
(94,876 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(1,905 posts)felony territory but the destruction of evidence that carries steep penalties and is easier to prove.
the nelm
(207 posts)and that attempted coverup. Nor of those of his schlubs that ended up in prison because of it. This bunch of numbnuts ain't nowhere close to being that smart and their hubris (and incompetence) will be their undoing.
Dixiegrrrl
(161 posts)We haven't forgotten.
elleng
(141,546 posts)Fil1957
(392 posts)KS Toronado
(22,086 posts)angrychair
(11,486 posts)Like the Epstein prison cell footage just happen to go down just around his cell and just for period around his death.
Now the specific video footage requested in discovery is unrecoverable destroyed.
The government needs better video cameras and servers.
evolves
(5,678 posts)18 minutes comes to mind, too.....
Rosemary?
Welcome to DU!
NBachers
(19,038 posts)republianmushroom
(22,069 posts)This Administration sure has a problem with losing records that are to be kept.
... has been irretrievably destroyed... does give one the feeling they don't know what the hell they are doing, or, maybe, they know exactly what they are doing.
Wonder Why
(6,371 posts)that the plaintiff's complaints and allegations about what the tapes would have shown are to be considered factual and proven.
jaymac
(114 posts)cstanleytech
(28,045 posts)Picaro
(2,295 posts)Deliberate destruction of subpoenaed evidence. Should elicit a charge of contempt. But it wont because the courts continue to give the feds deference that is undeserved.