A Minneapolis prosecutor who openly vented about her immigration caseload in court is now out of a job at the US attorney’s office. Julie T. Le, a lawyer for Immigration and.
A Minneapolis prosecutor who openly vented about her immigration caseload in court is now out of a job at the US attorney’s office. Julie T. Le, a lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement who had been detailed to the US attorney’s office in Minnesota, was removed from that temporary post Wednesday, a day after a tense exchange with a federal judge in St. Paul, sources tell the New York Times. Le told Judge Jerry W. Blackwell that she and her colleagues were swamped by immigration cases tied to the Trump administration’s statewide enforcement push.
Confronted over why prosecutors had not complied with his orders to release immigrants he found were being illegally held, Le described a system in collapse. « The system sucks. This job sucks », she said in court, adding that she was doing everything she could but lacked the power to fix what she called a broken process.
