Dick Durbin: “It's a situation where a young lady who volunteered to try…”

“I commend to my colleagues an article on the front page of if there is still a front page of the New York Times this morning. It's entitled surge in Immigration Cases in Minnesota Pushes Prosecutors and Judges to the Brink. It's a situation where a young lady who volunteered to try to help the immigration case docket, Julie Lee, has testified in court as to what she literally is facing when it comes to court orders that are not complied with. And it reached the point where in her frustration she said, I guess too much for the administration and they fired her this week.” (01:16–01:38)

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