Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Judge | Photo credit: Mike de Sisti/Reuters
American officials arrested a Wisconsin judge on Friday and accused her of helping a man evade immigration authorities in what seemed to be a dispute between the administration of President Donald Trump and local officials on the application of immigration.
In a criminal complaint, the United States Department of Justice said that Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Judge, refused to deliver the man after immigration agents showed him in his courtroom on April 18, and that tried to help him evade Jurgh A.
Dugan is accused of obstructing a processing and hiding an individual to the prevention judgment.
A spokesman for the US Sheriff Service. UU., Dugan was arrested in the court where he works on Friday morning. She had to appear in a federal court in Milwaukee later on Friday. A crowd was formed outside the court, singing “releases the judge now.”
An FBI spokesman could not be contacted immediately to comment.
The sentence occurs when the Department of Justice has ordered federal prosecutors to pursue criminal cases against local government officials who interfere with the repression of administration immigration. Such resistance was widespread during the first period of Trump 2017-2021 in office.
The FBI director, Kash Patel, said on social networks that the FBI had arrested Dugan for intervening with the attempted trial of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, whom he described as an “illegal foreigner” now in custody. He later eliminated that position, which he made before the case against Dugan was without an appointment in the Federal Court.
Wisconsin’s judicial records show that a man with that name who faced Miscreemeanor battery charges related to domestic abuse appeared in the Dugan court hall on April 18.
According to the complaint, Dugan “visible anger” and commented that the situation was “absurd” when he discovered that immigration officials were there to judge Flores-Uriz.
Dugan ordered the immigration officials to be and talk to the main judge and then escort Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer through a for which he led to a non-public area of the court, the complaint said.
Carl Ashley, main judge of the Milwaukee court, declined to comment.
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, citing sources that he did not identify, said Dugan directed Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer to a private hall and in a public area, but did not hide the couple in a jury deliberation room as some have or do.
Trump launched a repression of radical immigration after the falling office in January, decreased a national emergency and growing resources in an attempt to judge and deport a number of immigrant records in the United States illegally.
Dugan was first chosen as a County Judge in 2016 and before that he served as head of the local Catholic Charities branch, which provides refugee resettlement programs among other services. He spent much of his early career as a lawyer in the Legal Aid or Milwaukee Society, which serves poor people.
Posted on April 25, 2025