A US government attorney expressed unusual frustration in a courtroom proceeding about the difficulty in ensuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement complies with rulings ordering the release of migrants detained in the Trump administration’s Minnesota enforcement operation.
“The system sucks, this job sucks,” Julie Le, an attorney representing the US attorney’s office in Minnesota, said Tuesday in response to a federal judge’s questions on situations where courts have found ICE violated court orders in migrants’ cases, according to a person who was in the courtroom.
Le, who has been helping the US attorney’s office handle habeas petitions from migrants in Minnesota, compared pushing ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to comply as pulling teeth, and said she wished US District Judge Jerry Blackwell would hold her in contempt so she could get 24 hours of sleep, the person in the room said.
Le’s uncommon remarks come amid reports of new mass resignations of federal prosecutors in Minnesota. Justice Department lawyers have also struggled with a flood of habeas petitions related to the Trump administration’s crackdown of undocumented migrants, known as Operation Metro Surge.
The hearing Tuesday dealt with five separate habeas petitions from detained migrants, each of whom were transferred to other states as the US District Court for the District of Minnesota ordered their release. Blackwell called the hearing to determine how to move forward to ensure the administration complies with migrant release orders.
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3 comments:
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Miami, our American city and undeniably one of the premier places to practice criminal law in the country, is hiring new prosecutors on Elon Musks cesspool Twitter rebrand. This was an office of and for the elite of Miami, run by Miamians. People from all over the country wanted to work there. It made careers. Many gained entry into the elite of Miami by working there and became rich and powerful. But how powerful really and at what cost?Aren’t you guys embarrassed? Don’t you want to fight for what you and those before you built? If you’re this weak what means you deserve to occupy these positions of power after Trump? AUSA’s at SDFL are spending their days redacting Epstein files to remove Trumps name and investigating Obama for conspiring against Trump. It’s a sad joke.
You literally make it sound like it is the fault of the rank and file! Here is an idea... why don't YOU apply, join, and make a difference by working there...
yeah, didn't think so...
The current employees aren’t the only ones with influence. Connected lawyers all over sitting in fancy offices in Miami real quiet.
I’d have never worked there, I don’t like putting people in jail, I chose a different career. But I do live here and recognize the value of a local US Attorney’s Office with integrity.
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