Republicans demand answers on memo from Biden nominee telling staff to 'obstruct' ICE agents
Rachel Schilke
Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) requested a memo sent by Deputy Labor Secretary Julie Su in which she allegedly told her staff to "obstruct" agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement back in 2017 when the agency was visiting state labor offices.
The senators pointed to a memorandum issued by Su, who is President Joe Biden's nominee to become the next secretary of labor, in July 2017 that reportedly directed her staff to refuse entry to ICE agents who visited the labor offices looking to apprehend illegal immigrants.
Staff members should ask federal immigration agents "to leave our office, including the waiting room, and inform the agents that the labor commissioner does not consent to entry or search of any part of our office," the memo said, per the Baltimore Sun, a 2017 report cited by the two Republican senators.
"The memorandum also allegedly directs staff to tell ICE agents 'to leave our office' and to demand a search warrant signed by a judge before allowing them onto the premises," the senators wrote in a letter to the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency.
Tuberville asked Su about the memo during her nomination hearing last week, to which she said she did not have access to the memo and did not remember its contents.
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