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The long term problem is that lawyers are often not stupid, and they can see that working for this DOJ will have deleterious effects on their future careers when this stuff is over. I've heard that the Minneapolis office is down to 9 attorneys, and should be staffed for 50.
But the immediate problem here dates back to Rumsfeld v. Padilla*. In that case, the supreme court decided that habeas petitions must be filed in the district of actual, physical confinement. This created a race condition, where ICE is trying to get these people out of Minnesota as fast as possible, and these people's lawyers are trying to file the lawsuits in Minnesota before their clients physically leave the state. ICE would prefer for these petitions to be filed in Texas, because the Texas district courts are a lot more favorable to them. The Minnesota lawyers don't want to have to file in Texas, both because it's a disadvantage to them, and because they aren't admitted to practice in Texas, and it's a big hassle to work around that.
Combine that with Trump v. CASA, and no one wants to try a habeas class action. So you have a crap ton of individualized habeas petitions, all over the same issue, which is ICE's incorrect interpretation of federal immigration law. And in many, many of these cases, they properly got filed in Minnesota, but the prisoners got shipped to Texas anyway. The Minnesota judges are figuring out that all these cases are the same, and they're making the decisions real fast now, and ICE is not keeping up, by design. It's a total logistical cluster.
*Yes, it's that Donald Rumsfeld, and that Jose Padilla, the dirty bomb guy.