Urgent Need to Retain Assistant U.S. Attorneys to Combat Drug Cartels, Fraud, and Immigration Crimes
The departure of skilled federal prosecutors, combined with policy decisions that make recruitment and retention more difficult, including those that threaten to gut our future AUSA career bench through termination of probationary employees and the cancellation of DOJ Honors Program hires, threatens our ability to carry out DOJ’s mission of ensuring the fair administration of justice and protecting public safety.