ICE Lawyer’s Comments Reveal Metro Surge Case Overload (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: I wish she would just hold me in contempt your honor so that I could have a full 24 hours of sleep. The system sucks. This job sucks. Those are the words of federal attorney Julie Lay, who says she stupidly volunteered to go to Minneapolis to help the administration with its caseload related to the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities. A judge was threatening to hold her and another lawyer in contempt for failing to respond to orders he had issued related to their cases. And in this shockingly candid confession, she told the judge, I work days and nights just because people are still in there. When she's talking about government lawyers, she said they're overwhelmed and they need help. So I, I have to say stupidly volunteered. Now she was reportedly assigned to 90 cases roughly in under a month. And she admitted that the government just does not have enough lawyers to keep up with the caseload that has resulted from Operation Metro Surge. She said that getting errors fixed in these cases is like, quote, pulling teeth. Now her response to this judge, it really provides a pretty candid look under the hood of Operation Metro Surge and the fact that officials have been facing scrutiny from judges for a slew of errors that have been made in these cases. Now, after her remarks, she was removed from this job and sent back to her original government job at ICE.