Kathleen Clark
Attorney - Professor - Views are my own, not my employer. she/her
- ‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
- ‘There were signs everywhere in the detention facility offering us $3000 each if we agreed to self-deport. But the officers said they did not have resources for detainees to make phone calls. … The officers would frequently try to get people to sign forms agreeing to self-deport.’
- Judge Blackwell: "this hearing is really not about trying to find ways to punish individual lawyers .... It's about institutional compliance."
- Thank you to the person (perhaps @danielsuitor.com?) who made public the transcript from yesterday's hearing in front of Judge Blackwell. Here's a link to it:
- Then-Special AUSA Julie Le seemed to think that she needed to *create* a system to enable compliance w/ court orders: "I'm trying my very best to help to come up with a system or ... a procedure somehow so that we ... can help ... comply[] with the Court." Le says she can't access her DOJ email.
- THE COURT: So are you telling the Court that you were brought in brand new, a shiny, brand new penny into this role, and you received no proper orientation or training on what you were supposed to do? MS. LE: I have to say yes to that question, Your Honor. drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
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View full threadThere's been lots of attention on 1 particular inexperienced & untrained govt lawyer But I want to give a shout-out to Kira Kelley, climatedefenseproject.org/profile/kira..., who focused on ICE's horrific treatment of an immigrant prisoner -- all occurring *after* the court had ordered him released
- More evidence that DHS is lying when it claims that its enforcement operations are “targeted,” rather than indiscriminate sweeps www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-email...
- Kira Kelley, who represents folks arrested by ICE in MN: "Most of my clients, they report that respondents, upon detaining them, have no idea who they are. They are pulled over for how they look or for where they are ..." source: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- Last week, I noted that DHS repeatedly claims that its shootings occur in the context of "targeted" operations, and wondered whether any journalist had inquired behind that phrase. Bovino claimed that the shooting of Alex Pretti occurred while DHS was conducting “a targeted operation … against …
