STo us. 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” administration agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2017, when the agency was visiting state labor offices.
The senators pointed to a memo issued by Su, who is President Joe Biden’s nominee to become the next Labor secretary, in July 2017 that reportedly directed her staff to deny entry to ICE agents who visited labor offices seeking to detain illegal immigrants.
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Staff members should ask federal immigration agents to “leave our office, including the waiting room, and report to the agent[s] that the labor commissioner does not consent to the entry or search of any part of our office,” the memo read, according to the Baltimore Sun, a 2017 report cited by the two Republican senators.
“The memo also allegedly directs staff to tell ICE agents to ‘leave our office’ and to require a search warrant signed by a judge before allowing them to enter the facility,” they wrote the senators in a letter to the California Workforce and Workforce Development Agency.
Tuberville asked Su about the memo during his nomination hearing last week, to which he said he did not have access to the memo and did not remember its contents.
“In response to your questions for the record, and in response to Senator Tuberville’s request for the production of this memorandum, Julie Su stated that she ‘does not have access to this reported memo and does not[es] I do not recall its precise content,” the senators wrote. “Therefore, in accordance with our constitutional responsibilities, we request that your office release a copy of the 2017 memorandum issued by Julie Su to the Committee by May 8 2023”.
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The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee advanced Su’s nomination out of committee on April 26 in an 11-10 vote, with all Republicans voting against the nomination. His confirmation will now go to the Senate for a final vote.
Su’s nomination has been an uphill battle for her and Biden, who has seen two of his three nominees ousted. Several centrist Democrats, including Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Jon Tester (D-MT) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), are unsure of their position on Su’s confirmation, which could severely limit his chances of Su to achieve it. the necessary votes to become Secretary of Labor.
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