https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/minnesota-prosecutor-ice-sidelining-priorities-00766733The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota says his short-staffed office has been abandoning “pressing and important priorities” to manage the flood of immigration cases stemming from Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s mass deportation push in the Twin Cities.U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen, in a little-noticed filing last week with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, said his office is buckling under the crushing weight of hundreds of emergency lawsuits filed by immigrants arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in recent weeks. He said 427 had been filed in January alone, and that the pace is expected to continue into February.“To respond to this wave of habeas petitions, this Office has been forced to shift its already limited resources from other pressing and important priorities,” Rosen said in a declaration to the court. “The MN-USAO has cancelled all [civil enforcement] work and any other affirmative priorities and is operating in a reactive mode.”In a filing accompanying Rosen’s statement, Justice Department attorneys emphasized that the “crushing burden” caused by immigration cases had led U.S. attorneys offices to “shift resources away from other critical priorities, including criminal matters.”Rosen, a Trump appointee confirmed by the Senate in October 2025, said his team of attorneys handling civil litigation is “down 50%” — a reference to a wave of resignations and departures at the start of Operation Metro Surge — and that those who remain “are appearing daily for hearings on contempt motions.”
>>1486931“The Court is setting deadlines within hours, including weekends and holidays. Paralegals are continuously working overtime. Lawyers are continuously working overtime,” Rosen lamented, saying the court’s quick ruling is “desperately needed.”Rosen’s admissions contradict claims by the Department of Homeland Security that the flood of immigration cases filed in federal court has not overtaxed the Justice Department. A spokesperson said Wednesday that the administration is “more than prepared to handle the legal caseload” caused by the mass deportation effort.Spokespeople for DOJ and DHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.The rupture between DHS and DOJ has been on display in Minnesota, where DOJ attorneys say they’ve struggled to gain cooperation from ICE amid the enforcement surge — and are running on fumes to manage the extraordinary workload.Rosen is urging the appellate court to quickly resolve an issue at the heart of the emergency lawsuits: whether ICE has the legal authority to lock up most of the immigrants that agents are targeting for deportation, even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for years without incident. Judges in Minnesota and around the country have overwhelmingly rejected ICE’s position, ordering thousands of detainees freed or provided with bond hearings in immigration courts run by the Justice Department.The issue has clogged court dockets across the country, but nowhere more acutely than in Minnesota. And no higher court has conclusively resolved the issue to stem the deluge of litigation.“Absent expedited review, the resources of this Office will continue to be drained as hundreds more habeas petitions are filed, and the other important responsibilities and other priorities will be compromised,” Rosen warned.
>>1486931>Start mass arresting people with no warrants>"Oh no how could this result in us having to deal with a shit-ton of legal cases???"
>>1486934There's been a shortage of defense attorneys for decades. They're just trying to make it look like Trump is the one causing these problems.
>>1486936Probably because he is.
>>1486936Hiring defense attorneys won't make arresting people without warrants easier to deal with. The current administration does not care about following the law. This makes being a federal lawyer an impossible job regardless of how many people they have hired. The problem is Trump and the DHS and the FBI are lawless, not the attorney shortage.
>>1486937>orange man badGive me one reason this is Trumps faultNot anything dumb, like 'hes making attorneys post shitty lawsuits that get thrown out' or 'attorneys are resigning in protest when he tells them to do something obviously illegal'
>>1486939>Give me one reason this is Trumps faultBecause his agencies are violating federal law and he's asking federal lawyers to both violate the law to serve his purposes and defend the actions of his agents in courts. This is the same kind of mindless flailing we saw from Sydney Powell and Rudy Gulianni during his 2020 stop the steal scam. Even if they were good lawyers at some point their jobs become impossible when tasked with defending the indefensible. His federal attorneys are openly stating that they're being asked to do things that are illegal and being fired and/or punished if they choose to follow the law over his agenda.
>>1486939>Give me one reason this is Trumps fault>Why is the conduct of employees of the executive branch executed with the explicit knowledge, permission, and power of the leader of the executive branch the fault of the leader of the executive branch?You make Skyrim NPCs look observant.
>>1486941>Because his agencies are violating federal lawAs indicated by lawyers trying to comply with federal law..?You're cooked anon. Or paid. Probably both.
>>1486936Trump specifically goes through absolutely massive amounts of lawyers. Like it is well known that he has a massive legal aid turnover rate; a combination of demanding they do shit that would get them disbarred and not paying them even if they risk their licenses does that to you.
>>1486941>>1486961>orange man badsorry, you can't stop Zion Don and his army of nonwhite ICE agents from committing white genocideMAGA!
>>1486938This, you had that one fed lawyer who had a break down in court and said working for the trump regime sucked because they just ignore everything and wanted the judge to jail her so she could get get some sleep.
>>1486961>childish reddit level insults instead of explaining yourself like a big boyIm sure your parents are proud of you
>>1486931This is by design. This isn't just some cute story about an overworked government lawyer, this is the DoJ intentionally making things SO difficult that even when the law says they have to do something it's physically unable to be done. This is an administration acting solely on ideology. They are actively destroying the US legal system in order to imprison and deport as many brown people as possible while making it impossible for the law to stop them. A lawyer and a judge agree that so-and-so must be released? Well checkmate, idiot, we don't even know where he's imprisoned, so he stays locked up.Our legal system is being butchered before our very eyes.
>>1487048>0 counter argumentsyou're a pathetic big boy
>>1486931ice continues to get rid of the leftist plague and heal america
>>1487079By “leftist plague” you mean more than half the country? Because more people voted against Trump than for him. You wish to kill millions of people who disagree with your bigotry and hate.
ice is gotten rid of in minnesota and the rightist plague fails america >>1487096
>>1487085gotta love the leftist shill excuse where they add the people who never voted to their numbers to pretend they have a majority lmaosee you are a plague a disinformation dishonest plague of human filth.
>>1487133>coping this hardeither that or your english comprehension really went to shit
>>1487137oh i'm sorry i forgot i'm talking to an uneducated moron who was never taught critical thinking.the 30-40% of voters who DIDN"T turn out to vote doesn't mean they voted for Kamala anon.>Because more people voted against Trump than for him.so thats factually wrong
>enough Republicans have sufficient critical thinking to not vote Republican in Miami & TexasThey have become sane. And they aren't the only ones. More elections to come. The midterms.>an uneducated moron who was never taught critical thinkingBut enough about >>1487147
>>1486939>Give me one reasonAre you for fucking real??? Do you know how to count?
>>1486931Maybe if they were doing their jobs they wouldn't have a sudden influx of work?
>>1487298No, that's not what the complaint says.
>>1487309That's the jist of it.
>>1487213minesotians were a plague on society anyways judging from all the on field reporting. people like you are both a cancer for discourse and in public. little tears will be shed when you break and cry as ur violated in prison for being a domestic terrorist
>>1486931>worseMinnesota has been bad ever since niggers all mass migrated there back in the 1960s and was made worse by woketarded faggotry. Short of an outright civil war, it's never going to not be horrible. At least with a civil war whites can clean up that shithole.
