By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The lawyer for federal government acknowledged that Border Patrol erased videotapes that captured allegedly deplorable conditions at several Arizona detention centers but urged a judge not to discipline the agency, the Arizona Capitol Times reports.
Assistant Attorney General Sarah Fabian said the agency was under no obligation to save the recordings is taking “Herculean efforts to comply at great expense to the agency, both financially and in man hours.”
She added that the recordings are “being preserved to the fullest extent possible in light of technical challenges.
The videotapes are at the center of a lawsuit by immigration rights group who claim Border Patrol was confining people to inhumane conditions.
