In news that’ll probably not shock a single soul who reads this publication, a judge has been arrested after it was discovered she was helping an illegal immigrant evade capture, just a week after another judge was banned for life from the bench for harboring a member of the notorious and horrifying MS-13 gang in his home. These people never learn.
Judge Hanna Dugan was put in cuffs by FBI agents on Friday after she helped a person “evade arrest,” a statement from Director Kash Patel revealed. Dugan is being charged with knowingly misdirecting federal agents away from the illegal migrant as he hid inside the courthouse.
“The FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week,” Patel said in a post on X. “We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.”
A little while later, the illegal migrant, Flores Ruiz, was also taken into custody.
“Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public,” Patel continued.
Dugan, who serves as a circuit judge in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, is now the second judge to be slapped in cuffs by federal law enforcement under the Trump administration. These people, who are supposed to be impartial and upholding the legal system in the United States to ensure that every person is given a fair trial or hearing, have tossed all that aside in favor of judicial activism.
“During the president’s first term, officials with the U.S. Justice Department charged Massachusetts Judge Shelley Joseph with purposely delaying ICE agents while directing a court officer to help an illegal immigrant escape his status hearing through the back door of her courthouse. The Biden DOJ dropped Joseph’s charges in September of 2022, but the state Commission on Judicial Conduct is considering potential discipline against her, according to Masslive,” Trending Politics News reported.
“Judicial leg-ups to illegal immigrants fearing deportation have emerged as a flashpoint in the roiling debate over how or whether state and local authorities choose to assist federal agents with apprehending illegal immigrants targeted for deportation,” the article continued.
A former judge in the New Mexico court system, Joel Cano, stepped down from his position on the bench in the later part of 2024 after federal law enforcement officials arrested “an illegal alien from Venezuela and a suspected member of a criminal gang” that was living with his daughter in a second home owned by his wife.
He “can never hold a judicial office again, be a candidate for a judicial office, and cannot exercise any judicial authority in the state, including officiating at weddings,” a spokesman from the Administrative Office of the Courts said.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is exerting more control over federal immigration judges who are key to many of the deportation proceedings he hopes to push through over the objections of civil rights advocates. The Executive Office for Immigration Review, or EOIR, which runs the immigration court system, has fired more than two dozen immigration judges since February in locations stretching from California to Massachusetts, a move that strips the ability of many incarcerated illegal immigrants to have asylum hearings before being deported.
EOIR Acting Director Sirce E. Owen said her agency is restoring “accountability so that the Executive Branch officials answer to the President and to the people.”
“Unelected and constitutionally unaccountable (administrative law judges) have exercised immense power for far too long,” Mizelle went on to tell the LA Times.
Can you imagine being the kind of person who would allow a member of a gang notorious for rape and other types of violent crime to live with your daughter? The left is sick and twisted in so many ways, but this goes far beyond the line. Judicial activism has to stop.
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