Truths told

 

Julie Le, a lawyer who was representing the Trump administration in court in Minneapolis and had worked for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement before the current ICE invasion, had a lot that was inflammatory to say when she appeared before a federal judge. She came close to begging to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours respite from dealing with the deluge of habeas corpus petitions she was supposed to fight on behalf of ICE.

 

But what else she told the Black federal judge before whom she was appearing chills to the bone:

I share the same concern with you, Your Honor. I am not white, as you can see. And my family’s at risk as any other people that might get picked up too, so I share the same concern, and I took that concern to heart. But, again, fixing a system, a broken system, 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.

You will not be surprised to learn that Le is no longer in that job -- and perhaps on her way out of government work.