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FBI Arrests Another Liberal Judge For Hiding Illegal Alien In Courthouse
Trending Politics ^ | 4/25/2025 | Mark Steffen

Posted on 04/25/2025 8:24:06 AM PDT by Signalman

A judge who allegedly helped an illegal alien evade capture has herself been arrested by federal authorities, just one week after another judge received a lifetime ban from the bench for harboring an MS-13 gang member in his own home.

Judge Hannah Dugan was cuffed by FBI agents on Friday after helping the individual “evade arrest,” according to a statement by Director Kash Patel. She is charged with knowingly misdirecting federal officers away from the illegal immigrant as he hid in 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 posted 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.”

The illegal alien, Flores Ruiz, was arrested a short time later.

“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 said.

Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge in Wisconsin, is the second judge to be arrested by federal authorities under Trump.

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.

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.

Joel Cano, a former judge in the New Mexico court system, resigned late last year after federal agents arrested “an illegal alien from Venezuela and a suspected member of a criminal gang” 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,” according to a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the Courts.

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 stated to the LA Times.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
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To: PGR88
Its almost as though neo-marxists in the US deep-state are purposely using MS-13 and Tren de Aragua as foot soldiers for a destabilization and demoralization operation, in cooperation with a socialist foreign power.

Naaah. That’s too far-fetched to be possible....

Yeah, it almost sounds like the Democrat Party using the KKK as the militant wing of their party.

61 posted on 04/25/2025 12:06:58 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Signalman

All the local illegal aliens are going to hangout at the courthouse “to protect the “judge” that was “attacked” and stand in solidarity with freeloading illegal alien Piñata busters who want the American Dream paid for by the dumbass gringo taxpayers. They should all be arrested and deported after they dust and polish the 500 pound “judge’s” decapitated head of Abe Lincoln who is currently rolling in his grave.


62 posted on 04/25/2025 12:17:10 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Why are the DemonRATS so afraid of a Department of GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY?)
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To: madison10

Needs to be tarred and feathered.


63 posted on 04/25/2025 12:56:23 PM PDT by Dominic01 (Political correctness has become a psychosis)
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To: Signalman

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is more like it.

This is what I voted for.


64 posted on 04/25/2025 12:58:42 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Not even their hearts are in the right place.

If they were, they’d be feeling compassion for the VICTIMS of these hideous crimes and anger for the ones perpetrating them.

As it is, they’re showing compassion to the WRONG individuals.


65 posted on 04/25/2025 1:01:12 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Signalman

No more female judges needed!!!


66 posted on 04/25/2025 1:04:45 PM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: Signalman
Once again, notices the thin almost non existent lips? Leftist/Communist, especially the female leftist often seem to have very thin sharp lips. It's remarkable.


67 posted on 04/25/2025 1:05:28 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Signalman
“Unelected and constitutionally unaccountable (administrative law judges) have exercised immense power for far too long,” Mizelle stated to the LA Times.

Absolutely!

68 posted on 04/25/2025 1:06:08 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Signalman

What’s with the judges harboring these illegals???


69 posted on 04/25/2025 1:45:56 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: Red Badger

Gabby Hayes....wow, that’s a name from my very early years watching Roy Rogers show!


70 posted on 04/25/2025 1:51:04 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Zathras

Seeing the exact thing happen in two different locations says only one thing.
Someone is organizing this and these two are NOT the only ones.


Any judge in the future that rules in favor of illegals (gang members or not) need to be vetted by investigation before their orders become valid.


71 posted on 04/25/2025 1:58:24 PM PDT by tsowellfan (Trump did his part - Now we need to do ours - Contact our Reps and let them know where WE stand...)
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To: pollywog

What’s with the judges harboring these illegals?


This is enough of demand the entire judicial system remove itself from any cases dealing with Illegals


72 posted on 04/25/2025 2:00:54 PM PDT by tsowellfan (Trump did his part - Now we need to do ours - Contact our Reps and let them know where WE stand...)
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To: dragnet2
"Leftist/Communist, especially the female leftist often seem to have very thin sharp lips.">


73 posted on 04/25/2025 3:06:33 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Is that Tommy Boy?


74 posted on 04/25/2025 3:15:07 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: newfreep

She looks like a toothless turkey who just got chosen for Thanksgiving Dinner.


75 posted on 04/25/2025 3:15:43 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

It’s been less than 90 days.


76 posted on 04/25/2025 3:17:34 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Reily

In my state we don’t vote for judges. Just to retain or not.

Retain always wins.


77 posted on 04/25/2025 3:20:24 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Signalman

now THAT is WINNING. OMG. Made my day.


78 posted on 04/25/2025 3:21:29 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Signalman

Who would have thought to see the day that the FBI is doing their job. This is a good thing to watch.


79 posted on 04/25/2025 3:35:17 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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To: pollywog

80 posted on 04/25/2025 4:01:45 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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