Julie Lee

He just wants this fixed.

That's basically where the transcript ends.

What to make of all this?

You could say this is a document about the chaos of this moment and how the legal process is not working.

The judge had to call this hearing, after all.

But he did call it.

And we have the record of it.

In reading it, I kept thinking about Oscar.

Because while all this was unfolding, all those days Judge Blackwell and Julie Lee were talking about and going back and forth about, those were all days in his life.

Days when, as the judge says, he should not have been detained in the first place.

What happened for Oscar?

At the end of the hearing, his attorney urges the judge to please read docket entry number 67, which actually answers all these questions.

It's worth hearing, so here.

We've edited this for length and clarity.

Each paragraph is numbered.

That's the way things are written.

In the end, Oscar was detained for 18 days.

U.S.

Attorney Julie Lee did not hold back during a Tuesday hearing in St.

Paul for several immigration cases.