Surge in Immigration Cases in Minnesota Pushes Prosecutors and Judges to Brink

A report from Nytimes says a surge of immigration cases tied to the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge has strained Minnesota’s federal courts. Prosecutor Julie T. Le publicly complained at a St. Paul hearing and subsequently lost her temporary Justice Department position after saying, “The system sucks.

This job sucks.” Judge Jerry W. Blackwell told the court that agencies’ failures to follow release orders left immigrants languishing in detention and threatened the integrity of the criminal justice system, saying the D.O.J., the D.H.S. and ICE are not above the law.

The deluge of habeas petitions and noncompliance with court orders has demoralized prosecutors, exhausted defense lawyers and prompted judges in other districts to warn of growing backlogs and repeated violations tied to the enforcement campaign. Ms.

United States, St. Paul, Minnesota