The attorney, Julie Le, was sent back to her job at ICE, according to a source familiar with the matter. Blackwell is threatening to hold her and another lawyer in contempt for repeated violations of orders he’s issued in immigration cases. “It takes 10 e-mails to get a release condition to be corrected,” Le told Judge Blackwell on Tuesday. ‘I also go back and threaten them’The Trump administration’s enforcement blitz in Minnesota has faced push back from state and local officials, who failed to convince a different federal judge in Minneapolis to temporarily block the operation. But Le, too, appeared to have some reservations about how the operation was being handled and the way in which her colleagues were responding to adverse court orders stemming from it.

Source: CNN February 04, 2026 23:35 UTC