During the morning of this Friday, April 25, the Federal Research Office (FBIfor its acronym in English), the United States National Security and Intelligence Service, arrested the circuit judge in Milwaukee County, Hannah Duganfor allegedly “helping several undocumented immigrants to avoid arrest.”
As stated on social networks by the director of the FBI, Kash patel, Dugan faces charges for obstruction to justice and concealment of a person in the face of his arrest. Given the circumstances, the judge of the largest city in the state of Wisconsin He is in federal custody and hopes to appear before the court.
“We believe that the judge I intentionally diverted to the federal agents of the subject who was going to be arrested in his court, Eduardo Floresallowing the illegal foreigner to avoid arrest. Fortunately, our agents chased the offender, but the judge’s obstruction created a greater danger to the public, “Patel said.
According to the American television channel CNN, The arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan for federal positions represents “a new step” within the president’s administration Donald Trump In relation to the conduct of the judges, particularly on the application of the laws of irregular immigration In the US.
New measures on immigration issues
Since the Republican president returned to power in the White House On Monday, January 20, the United States Department of Justice said that “it will investigate any local official who does not help federal authorities in matters of immigration”, As is happening in the case of Hannah Dugan.
According to him Journal Sentinel, A news website posted in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the agents of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE, for its acronym in English) they arrived at the court on the morning of Thursday, April 24 and “they went immediately to Hannah Dugan’s room ”with a court order.
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Also, the main circuit judge in Milwaukee County, Carl Ashley, He asked the ICE agents if they had a formal instruction, and the officials “presented it in order together with their respective identification”, so they were asked to wait until the judicial hearing of Eduardo Flores Ruiz.
However, FBI’s judicial documents indicate that the undocumented immigrant He learned that ICE agents were outside the court to stop him and decided to flee the building: “Fortunately, the agents confronted him outside the court. He tried to escape again, but was arrested at a short distance,” Patel added.
As stated by the American television network UnivisionHannah Dugan is a circuit judge in Milwaukee since January 2016 and is recognized in the city “for his participation in Community forums and causes linked to social justice “, mainly related to irregular immigration issues in Wisconsin.
Given this situation, the case of Dugan has become a new example of the conflict that currently exists in the United States, among jurisdictions state and federal In migration issues, considering that various legal and human rights organizations have questioned ICE access to the Courts of the Nation.
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