Trump admin says video footage inside ICE facility at center of class action lawsuit 'cannot be produced'

[BumRushDaShow]

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.

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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]

1. Surprise

[Javaman]

2. it's that bad. fuckers.

they either burned it or it will eventually come out.

[bluestarone]

3. TSF, and his DOJ and EVERYONE else, THE Whole fucking bunch of them will

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]

4. Lawless, unhinged, out-of-control motherfuckers

[MarineCombatEngineer]

5. Once the Dems take back the House,

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]

24. hope you are right

the assholes would put us all in concentration camps, they are nazies ,fascist ,perverts .justice is a dream at this point.

[EarthFirst]

6. Start issuing cell phone subpoenas...

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

[KS Toronado]

11. Excellent idea !

[sinkingfeeling]

7. How very convenient for the DOJ.

[sheshe2]

17. This is like an eight-year-old saying the dog ate my homework.

[Buddyzbuddy]

8. Do these idiots not understand it's not the activity itself that gets them into

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

[the nelm]

15. Apparently, none of these morons ever heard of Richard Nixon...

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]

25. The cover up....Exactly what took Nixon down.

We haven't forgotten.

[elleng]

9. ' losing some key pieces of discovery' OOPS!!!!!!!!

[Fil1957]

10. What? No, there must be some mistake!

[KS Toronado]

12. They ignore what happened to Nixon when he "lost" 18 minutes.

[angrychair]

13. Funny how this keeps happening

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]

14. The Nixon tapes'

18 minutes comes to mind, too.....

[Doodles]

20. Oh yes

Rosemary?

[evolves]

21. Rosemary.

Welcome to DU!

[NBachers]

16. Gee, where have we seen this before?

[republianmushroom]

18. The American Gestapo " losing some key pieces of discovery", convenient.

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]

19. The defense admits it existed. They claim they can't produce it. ERGO: The judge should declare

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

[jaymac]

23. Wouldn't that be the bee's knees!

[cstanleytech]

22. In other words they destroyed the evidence on purpose to try and scuttle the case.

[Picaro]

26. How convenient

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.

[BurnDoubt]

27. MISSING AND PRESUMED DEPLORABLE!!!!!