Ian Millhiser

At its peak, there were 3,000 law enforcement officers that the federal government sent to Minneapolis.

But they didn't send lawyers.

They didn't send additional clerical staff in the detention facilities.

And so what happens is a judge issues an order saying, hey, you need to release this person.

They're being detained illegally.

And normally, you know, that order would be sent to the lawyer.

The lawyer would not would notify the detention facility of it.

The detention facility would tell the guards, hey, you got to turn the key and let this person go.

And, you know, the process would get underway.

But because they surge the capacity to arrest people without adding additional personnel for all the legal compliance things that go into something like a massive occupation of a U.S.

city.

Judges are issuing orders to release people and those orders are not being followed.

OK, so ICE is not following court orders because it sounds like in your telling they can't.

They don't actually have the manpower to do it.

What happens when the government cannot comply with court orders?

I guess let me first answer what happens when someone other than the government defies a court order.

Cool.

And the answer is that you are held in contempt if you're really, really defiant.

And then there could be all sorts of legal consequences.

You can be fined if you are held in contempt.