2026年2月5日 / 美国东部时间下午5:16 / CBS新闻
华盛顿 — 周二在明尼阿波利斯举行的联邦法院听证会上，人们得以一窥特朗普政府向双城地区增派移民执法人员之际，明尼苏达州联邦检察官所面临的移民相关案件积压规模，以及那些称其命令被反复无视的法官们的挫败情绪。
在联邦地区法官杰里·布莱克韦尔（Jerry Blackwell）主持的听证会上，涉及五名在明尼苏达州被捕后质疑拘留合法性的移民。布莱克韦尔曾下令释放这些男子，但随后不得不反复向政府询问他们的下落和状态。
听证会受到广泛关注，起因是联邦检察官朱莉·勒（Julie Le）邀请布莱克韦尔以藐视法庭罪起诉她，”这样我就能有整整24小时的睡眠了。”
“你想让我怎么做？这个体制糟透了。这份工作糟透了。我拼尽全力就是为了满足你的需求，”根据听证会记录，勒说道。
据知情人士透露，勒随后被调离了司法部的临时岗位。她告诉布莱克韦尔，她于1月开始在司法部工作，此前自愿从美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）的职位调动过来，以协助明尼苏达州因特朗普政府加强移民行动（称为”地铁行动激增”）而涌入的案件。该人士称，勒在周二发表上述言论后被调离临时岗位。
“他们负担过重，需要帮助，所以，我，我必须说，很愚蠢地主动请缨，”她向法官解释自己为何决定协助明尼苏达州美国检察官办公室处理收到的人身保护令申请。该办公室近几周已出现大量辞职现象。
勒补充说，她曾试图辞去司法部职务，但尚未找到替代者。她表示会继续留任直至找到接替者。
“如果他们找不到（替代者），那我当然会辞职，”勒告诉布莱克韦尔。”…我在这里只是想确保相关机构明白遵守所有法院命令的重要性，而他们过去和现在都没有做到这一点。”
勒还表示自己”不是白人”，并说她的家人”和其他可能被牵连的人一样面临风险”。
当法官询问她是否在新岗位上”没有接受适当的指导或培训”时，勒予以确认。
“我们没有得到任何关于该怎么做的指导或指示，”勒说，并补充司法部会”把你直接扔进深水区，然后就不管了”。
与此同时，布莱克韦尔表达了对政府不遵守其命令的不满。
“法院命令不是咨询性的，也不是有条件的，”他说。”任何机构都不能将其视为可选择遵守或不遵守的事项。”
布莱克韦尔告诉司法部律师，在某些情况下，他不得不多次下达命令，要求提供被拘留者的状态信息，而这些被拘留者已被下令释放。
“案件和事务的数量不能成为稀释宪法权利的理由，这永远行不通。这反而更需要谨慎处理，”布莱克韦尔在听证会上说。”面对过多的被拘留者、过多的案件、过多的截止日期，以及不足以应对的资源，这不能成为继续拘留的借口。事实上，这应该是一个警示信号。”
布莱克韦尔称，司法部、国土安全部和ICE”没有人凌驾于法律之上”。
“我们真正需要的只是遵守命令，因为在某些情况下，本不该被逮捕的人却被关押，甚至在被下令释放后还被拘留数天甚至一周以上，”他说。”我关心的是维护法治和所有相关人员的宪法权利。”
他追问勒是否向司法部、国土安全部和ICE表达了不满，勒回应称自己通过发送”加粗字体的电子邮件”试图引起他们的注意。
尽管如此，布莱克韦尔仍批评政府在释放这些人方面行动迟缓。
“我完全支持单一行政部门理论，即国土安全部、ICE和司法部都是行政部门的一部分，”法官援引保守法律运动所推崇的法律理论说。”如果餐馆出了问题，我不会跑到厨房去质问谁烤的面包。所有这些都属于行政部门。”
在回到座位前，勒表示自己正在尽最大努力，致力于”修复这个破碎的系统”。但她补充道，”我没有魔法按钮来解决问题。我没有权力或话语权来改变现状。我只能在自己的能力范围内尽力而为。”
两名移民的律师基拉·凯利（Kira Kelly）随后站起来，称这一情况”前所未有”。她表示政府律师”没有能力控制自己的当事人”。
“一封加粗字体的电子邮件无法改变这种普遍存在的、系统性地无视法院命令、甚至无视基本人权的模式，”凯利说。
国土安全部发言人特里西娅·麦克劳克林（Tricia McLaughlin）在一份声明中告诉CBS新闻，勒是一名试用期律师，其行为”不专业，不符合ICE律师应有的态度，因为她背弃了对美国政府利益忠诚、敬业和热忱的义务”。
布莱克韦尔并非明尼苏达州首位对特朗普政府及其在移民案件中对法院命令回应不满的法官。明尼苏达州联邦地区法院首席法官帕特里克·希尔特兹（Patrick Schiltz）上周严厉批评ICE违反了他所说的在74起案件中发出的96项法院命令。
“ICE不是法外之地。ICE有权对法院命令提出质疑，但与任何诉讼当事人一样，除非命令被推翻或撤销，否则必须遵守，”希尔特兹在一份四页的裁决中写道。
在最近的法庭文件中，美国检察官丹尼尔·罗森（Daniel Rosen）表示，仅在明尼苏达州就有超过427起人身保护令案件被提交，其办公室”被迫将本已有限的资源从其他紧迫和重要的工作中转移出来”。
“这场诉讼洪水的负担不仅落在政府身上，也落在地区法院身上，”罗森说，并补充道，他办公室通常处理这些案件的民事部门人员仅到位了50%。
Frustrations from judge, prosecutor in Minnesota boil over amid Trump’s ICE surge: “Not above the law”
February 5, 2026 / 5:16 PM EST / CBS News
Washington — A federal court hearing in Minneapolis on Tuesday provided an extraordinary window into the volume of immigration-related cases overwhelming federal prosecutors in Minnesota amid the Trump administration’s surge of immigration agents to the Twin Cities, and the frustrations of exasperated judges who have said their orders are repeatedly ignored.
The hearing before U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell was over cases brought by five different immigrants who were arrested in Minnesota and had subsequently challenged their detentions. Blackwell had ordered each of the men to be released from immigration custody, but then had to repeatedly seek information from the government about their locations and statuses.
The proceeding gained widespread attention when the federal prosecutor, Julie Le, invited Blackwell to hold her in contempt of court “so that I can have a full 24 hours sleep.”
“What do you want me to do? The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need,” Le said, according to a transcript of the hearing.
Le was subsequently removed from her detail with the Justice Department, according to a source familiar with the matter. She told Blackwell she began working with the Justice Department in January after volunteering to move from her post as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer to assist with the influx of cases in Minnesota stemming from the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration operations, dubbed Operation Metro Surge. The person said Le was removed from the detail after her comments Tuesday.
“They are overwhelmed and they need help, so I, I have to say, stupidly enough to volunteer,” she told the judge of her decision to help the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota with the habeas claims it received. The office has been hit with a wave of resignations in recent weeks.
Le added that she had sought to resign from her Justice Department position, but no replacement had been found. She said she intended to remain on assignment until one was identified.
“If they don’t, then by all mean (sic), I’m going to walk out,” Le told Blackwell. “…I am here just trying to make sure that the agency understand how important it is to comply with all the court orders, which they have not done in the past or currently.”
Le added that she is “not White” and said her family is “at risk as any other people that might get picked up too.”
Asked by the judge whether she was brought into her new role with “no proper orientation or training,” Le said she was.
“We have no guidance or direction on what we need to do,” Le said, adding that the Justice Department will “just throw you in the well and then here we go.”
Blackwell, meanwhile, expressed his own frustrations with what he said was a lack of compliance by the government with his orders.
“A court order is not advisory and it is not conditional,” he said. “It is not something that any agency can treat as optional while it decides how or whether to comply with the court order.”
Blackwell told Justice Department lawyers that in some instances, he had to issue multiple orders asking for information about the status of detainees who were arrested and then ordered to be released from custody.
“Volume, that is, the volume of cases and matters, is not a justification for diluting constitutional rights and it never can be. It heightens the need for care,” Blackwell said during the hearing. “Having what you feel are too many detainees, too many cases, too many deadlines, and not enough infrastructure to keep up with it all, is not a defense to continued detention. If anything, it ought to be a warning sign.”
The Justice Department, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and ICE “are not above the law,” Blackwell said.
“What we really want is simply compliance, because on the other side of this is somebody who should not have been arrested in some instances in the first place who is being hauled in jail or put in shackles for days, if not a week-plus, after they’ve been ordered released,” he said. “That’s my concern is for upholding the rule of law and the constitutional rights of all concerned.”
He pressed Le on whether she was making her frustrations known to the Justice Department, DHS and ICE, and Le responded that she sends emails with “big, bold font” in an effort to get their attention.
Still, Blackwell remained critical of the lack of expediency in freeing the men from detention.
“I wholeheartedly embrace the notion of a unitary executive, as in DHS, ICE, the DOJ, all a part of the Executive Branch,” the judge said, referencing a legal theory that is embraced by the conservative legal movement. “And if there’s a problem in the restaurant, I don’t intend to go in the kitchen to try to figure out who makes the bread. And all of it is part of the Executive Branch.”
Before stepping back to her seat, Le said she was doing her best and working toward “fixing a system, a broken system.” But, she added, “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.”
Kira Kelly, an attorney for two of the immigrants, then stood up and called the situation “unprecedented.” She said government attorneys “don’t have the power to get their clients under control.”
“An email with bold font is not going to change the widespread, systemic pattern of disregard for court orders and honestly for basic human rights in this situation,” Kelly said.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CBS News in a statement that Le was a probationary attorney, and called her conduct “unprofessional and unbecoming of an ICE attorney in abandoning her obligation to act with commitment, dedication, and zeal to the interests of the United States Government.”
Blackwell is not the first judge in Minnesota to express frustrations with the Trump administration and its response to orders in immigration cases. Judge Patrick Schiltz, the chief judge on the U.S. district court in Minnesota, lambasted ICE last week for violating what he said was 96 court orders issued in 74 cases.
“ICE is not a law unto itself. ICE has every right to challenge the orders of this Court, but, like any litigant, ICE must follow those orders unless and until they are overturned or vacated,” Schiltz wrote in a four-page decision.
In a recent court filing, U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen said that more than 427 habeas cases were filed in Minnesota alone, and that his office “has been forced to shift its already limited resources from other pressing and important priorities.”
“The burden of this flood of new lawsuits not only falls on the Government, but also on the District Court,” Rosen said, adding that the civil division in his office that typically handles these cases was only at 50% filled.
