Milwaukee judge arrested by FBI for misdirecting federal agents
By Jon Styf
The Center Square
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, according to a social media post from FBI Director Kash Patel.
“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,” Patel wrote in a now-deleted post.
Patel added that more would be shared soon on the arrest.
“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 wrote.
Wisconsin officials including Gov. Tony Evers came under fire this week following a report from Dan O'Donnell about a Department of Administration memo telling state employees what to do if federal or Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents come to their workplace.
The memo asked employees not to answer questions from a federal agent, give access to systems or information and to call the state Office of Legal Counsel.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos responded on Tuesday to the memo, saying that the state has to learn what is actually happening because "there are not ICE agents knocking on every state agency's door wondering where their illegal immigrants are. That's just not true."
He called the memo a scare tactic from Democrats aimed at scaring state employees about ICE agents.
"I cannot imagine that we want to keep funding positions that people are not gonna want to cooperate with ICE," Vos said.
Republican leadership was also concerned about the overall message sent by the memo.
"The Democrats are so far out of the mainstream on this issue that the governor probably feels like he has to virtue signal and say 'Oh, yeah, just ignore federal law,'" said Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August, R-Walworth. "That's dangerous, it also sends a very, very dangerous signal to illegal immigrants across the country that 'Hey, come to Wisconsin and the state government is going to try to help you.'"
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