By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Border Patrol has destroyed tapes that show “unconstitutional conditions of confinement” and even ignored a judge’s order to preserve the evidence, lawyers for migrants contend, Capital Media Services reports.
Lawyers for migrants who sued the agency said people apprehended by Border Patrol were treated cruelly, denied access to adequate food and were confined to unsanitary conditions.
Late last month, Border Patrol acknowledged it was routinely recording over used videotapes, erasing evidence.
The federal government would not say why it disobeyed a judge’s orders.
