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BumRushDaShow

(163,320 posts)
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 05:33 PM Friday

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
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Trump admin says video footage inside ICE facility at center of class action lawsuit 'cannot be produced' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Friday OP
Surprise fargone Friday #1
it's that bad. fuckers. Javaman Friday #2
TSF, and his DOJ and EVERYONE else, THE Whole fucking bunch of them will bluestarone Friday #3
Lawless, unhinged, out-of-control motherfuckers Blue Owl Friday #4
Once the Dems take back the House, MarineCombatEngineer Friday #5
hope you are right oldinmtdem92 19 hrs ago #24
Start issuing cell phone subpoenas... EarthFirst Friday #6
Excellent idea ! KS Toronado Friday #11
How very convenient for the DOJ. sinkingfeeling Friday #7
This is like an eight-year-old saying the dog ate my homework. sheshe2 Friday #17
Do these idiots not understand it's not the activity itself that gets them into Buddyzbuddy Friday #8
Apparently, none of these morons ever heard of Richard Nixon... the nelm Friday #15
The cover up....Exactly what took Nixon down. Dixiegrrrl 18 hrs ago #25
' losing some key pieces of discovery' OOPS!!!!!!!! elleng Friday #9
What? No, there must be some mistake! Fil1957 Friday #10
They ignore what happened to Nixon when he "lost" 18 minutes. KS Toronado Friday #12
Funny how this keeps happening angrychair Friday #13
The Nixon tapes' evolves Friday #14
Oh yes Doodles Friday #20
Rosemary. evolves Friday #21
Gee, where have we seen this before? NBachers Friday #16
The American Gestapo " losing some key pieces of discovery", convenient. republianmushroom Friday #18
The defense admits it existed. They claim they can't produce it. ERGO: The judge should declare Wonder Why Friday #19
Wouldn't that be the bee's knees! jaymac 22 hrs ago #23
In other words they destroyed the evidence on purpose to try and scuttle the case. cstanleytech Friday #22
How convenient Picaro 15 hrs ago #26
MISSING AND PRESUMED DEPLORABLE!!!!! BurnDoubt 9 hrs ago #27

bluestarone

(20,780 posts)
3. TSF, and his DOJ and EVERYONE else, THE Whole fucking bunch of them will
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 05:40 PM
Friday

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.

MarineCombatEngineer

(16,858 posts)
5. Once the Dems take back the House,
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 05:57 PM
Friday

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)
24. hope you are right
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 07:54 AM
19 hrs ago

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)
6. Start issuing cell phone subpoenas...
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 06:03 PM
Friday

…the sick fucks cannot help sharing the really heinous violations among themselves.

Buddyzbuddy

(1,905 posts)
8. Do these idiots not understand it's not the activity itself that gets them into
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 06:20 PM
Friday

felony territory but the destruction of evidence that carries steep penalties and is easier to prove.

the nelm

(207 posts)
15. Apparently, none of these morons ever heard of Richard Nixon...
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:04 PM
Friday

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.

angrychair

(11,486 posts)
13. Funny how this keeps happening
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 07:52 PM
Friday

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.

republianmushroom

(22,069 posts)
18. The American Gestapo " losing some key pieces of discovery", convenient.
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:36 PM
Friday

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)
19. The defense admits it existed. They claim they can't produce it. ERGO: The judge should declare
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:50 PM
Friday

that the plaintiff's complaints and allegations about what the tapes would have shown are to be considered factual and proven.

Picaro

(2,295 posts)
26. How convenient
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 11:17 AM
15 hrs ago

Deliberate destruction of subpoenaed evidence. Should elicit a charge of contempt. But it won’t because the courts continue to give the feds deference that is undeserved.


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