Traci Mumford

In Minnesota this week, a federal prosecutor was in court in front of a judge when she made a pretty wild statement.

Julie Lee was being grilled about why the Trump administration has been ignoring court orders to release immigrants who shouldn't have been detained.

And in response, she said, quote, What do you want me to do?

The system sucks.

This job sucks.

Lee said her office was so slammed with immigration cases that she wished the judge would just hold her in contempt of court so that she could get some sleep.

The next day, she was fired from her position.

But her dramatic outburst points to the chaos that Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown has triggered in the court system.

not just in Minnesota but across the country.

The surge of arrests has meant a flood of cases.

Lee said that in the last few weeks, she personally found herself overseeing about 90 of them.

The backlog has left scores of immigrants stuck in detention in violation of judicial orders and their constitutional rights.

President Trump said that he's ordered about 700 federal immigration agents to leave Minnesota.

His border czar, Tom Homan, said the partial drawdown came after some county sheriffs in the state agreed to cooperate with the administration on immigration enforcement.

The biggest county in the state, however, where Minneapolis is, has not changed its longstanding policy against working with ICE.

For now, roughly 2,000 federal agents will remain in Minnesota.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry called the reduction a step in the right direction, but joined the governor and other state officials in calling for all federal agents to leave.

This week, for the first time, two major American medical groups have backed limitations on gender-related surgeries for minors.

The American Medical Association, the nation's largest organization representing doctors, said yesterday that the procedures should generally be deferred until patients reach adulthood.

And on Tuesday, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended essentially the same.