Judge holds Trump administration in contempt over failure to produce documents on ICE surge in L.A.

The Trump administration said Tuesday it paid a $3,500 fine for being in contempt of court after a federal judge ruled Homeland Security didn’t turn over documents being sought in a case about immigration enforcement in Los Angeles.

Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, issued the contempt ruling in secret last week, charging the government $500 per day until it produced the information.

The documents at issue are personal phone records from government officials describing how immigration officers chose enforcement targets during last year’s deportation surge in Los Angeles.

The government was required to try to collect those personal phone records during legal discovery, in accordance with a magistrate judge’s order.

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