Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan gets a dose of her own medicine after helping illegal migrant evade ICE

Wisconsin justice Hannah Dugan was indicted by a national expansive assemblage connected Tuesday for allegedly attempting to assistance an undocumented migrant from being detained by ICE agents. 

The indictment accused Dugan of 'knowingly' concealing undocumented migrant, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, truthful helium wouldn't beryllium discovered and arrested by officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 

Dugan allegedly helped Flores-Ruiz evade apprehension erstwhile helium appeared successful her courtroom connected April 18 for a pretrial proceeding successful a home maltreatment case. 

Flores-Ruiz was accused of punching idiosyncratic 30 times successful the look aft they complained helium was playing large music. 

He was charged with three counts of misdemeanor battery for allegedly assaulting 3 radical connected March 12. 

Flores-Ruiz is simply a migrant from Mexico. ICE and the Department of Homeland Security said helium was deported successful 2013 and ne'er sought ineligible support to return.

ICE agents successful Milwaukee were past alerted to Flores-Ruiz's proceeding connected April 18, and agents showed up astatine the courthouse to apprehension him. 

Six ICE agents described arsenic wearing 'generally plain clothes' arrived astatine the courthouse and presented their identifications to a information guard, according to a transgression complaint. 

Dugan was past allegedly notified of the agents and 'became visibly angry,' calling their beingness 'absurd,' and near the bench. 

'Witnesses uniformly reported that Judge Dugan was visibly upset and had a confrontational, aggravated demeanor,' the transgression ailment stated. 

Dugan past allegedly asked the officers to permission and informed them they needed a judicial warrant to apprehension Flores-Ruiz.

The Wisconsin justice was past accused of directing the agents to the main justice and helped Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer permission done a 'jury door.' 

The affidavit stated Dugan told the migrant and his attorney, 'wait travel with me' earlier they near the courthouse, directing them to a backmost assemblage door. 

The courtroom lawman told investigators that the doorway is lone utilized for deputies, juries, tribunal staff, and defendants already successful custody. 

They added that defence attorneys and defendants who weren't successful custody 'never' utilized that door. 

Dugan allegedly adjourned the lawsuit without the authorities attorney's knowledge, according to the transgression complaint. 

Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer allegedly took an elevator and near the courthouse earlier ICE agents followed them. 

ICE agents saw him extracurricular the courthouse, and helium ran distant erstwhile they approached him. 

Flores-Ruiz was apprehended by ICE agents, and Dugan was arrested and charged with obstructing a proceeding of a national bureau and concealing an idiosyncratic to forestall arrest. 

FBI manager Kash Patel announced Dugan's apprehension successful a connection connected X, writing, 'We judge Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected national agents distant from the taxable to beryllium arrested successful her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the taxable -- an amerciable alien -- to evade arrest.'

'Thankfully our agents chased down the perp connected ft and he's been successful custody since, but the Judge's obstruction created accrued information to the public.'

Dugan's lawyers wrote successful a connection aft her apprehension that she 'asserts her innocence and looks guardant to being vindicated successful court.' 

The lawsuit has further ignited tense deportation debates crossed the country, with representatives and colleagues calling for Dugan's release. 

Over 150 erstwhile authorities and national judges signed a missive to Attorney General Pam Bondi calling Dugan's apprehension an 'assault connected the judiciary, the Rule of Law, and those who administer it.'

Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin stood by Dugan, penning successful a connection that the apprehension was a 'gravely superior and drastic move.'

'Make nary mistake, we bash not person kings successful this state and we are a Democracy governed by laws that everyone indispensable abide by,' Baldwin antecedently said.

'By relentlessly attacking the judicial system, flouting tribunal orders, and arresting a sitting judge, this President is putting those basal Democratic values that Wisconsinites clasp beloved connected the line.'