ICE chief counsel in Minnesota leaves his job amid burnout and dissent
Source: MS NOW
Amid a torrent of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration tactics, the chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota has departed.
The top lawyer, Jim Stolley, retired after 31 years of service, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW in an email. Questions from MS NOW sent to Stolley’s Department of Homeland Security email address prompted an automated one-line response that read: “I have retired from public service.”
Stolley’s departure, reported first on Saturday by The New York Times, comes as ICE continues to draw the ire of judges for failing to comply with court orders. Federal officials are also battling an immense caseload, with prosecutors resigning — or being fired for speaking out.
Julie Le, according to NBC News, was removed from her temporary post at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota after she told a judge “this job sucks” when grilled about why the government was not heeding court orders to release unlawfully detained immigrants.....
MS NOW reported that top officials from the DOJ’s civil rights division quit in January after the department declined to investigate Good’s fatal shooting. The New York Times reported in January that six federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Minnesota resigned after the DOJ officials sought an investigation into Good’s widow, Becca Good.
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ICE chief counsel in Minnesota leaves his job amid burnout and dissent
— MS NOW (@ms.now) 2026-02-07T22:36:03.576Z
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