Julie Le, a federal prosecutor who handled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cases in Minnesota has been fired from the U.S. Attorney’s Office after telling a judge that her “job sucks” and asking to be held in contempt so she could “get 24 hours of sleep,” according to the New York Times.
Le had taken on 88 cases in less than a month and expressed frustration with her job during a Tuesday immigration hearing in Minneapolis.
Le’s painfully personal remarks came as the judge asked her about why she and other prosecutors had ignored court orders in five separate cases to free people the court had determined were illegally detained by federal agents.
Le said it was like “pulling teeth” to get the DHS, ICE and the DOJ to follow court orders.
“What do you want me to do?” Ms. Le asked the judge. “The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need.”
“Fixing a system, a broken system,” she went on, “I don’t have a magic button to do it. I don’t have the power or the voice to do it. I only can do it within the ability and the capacity that I have.”
“The D.O.J., the D.H.S., and ICE are not above the law,” the judge said.
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