The FBI and immigration officials have arrested a Milwaukee, Wisconsin judge who allegedly aided a an illegal immigrant in escaping from immigration authorities.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan hurried the man and his lawyer out of her courtroom through the side door reserved for jurors last week after she found out that Immigration officers were searching for him due to crimes he allegedly committed. Officers chased the man outside the building and arrested him.
The illegal immigrant is 30-year-old Mexican national Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, 30, who appeared in her courtroom on April 18 for a pre-trial conference related to other crimes.
He is now in an ICE facility in Juneau, Wisc., where he must wait for his court date relating to crimes of battery and domestic violence.
“This criminal illegal alien has a laundry list of violent criminal charges including strangulation and suffocation, battery, and domestic abuse. Ruiz has illegally entered the U.S. twice,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
“On April 18, 2025, ICE assisted by deputized FBI law enforcement officials carried out a targeted operation to arrest Ruiz at the Milwaukee County Courthouse,” DHS said. “Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected ICE agents away from this criminal illegal alien to obstruct the arrest and try to help him evade arrest. Thankfully, our FBI partners chased down this illegal alien, arrested him and removed him from American communities.”
FBI Director Kash Patel said, ““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.”
As for Judge Dugan, she was released on her own recognizance. Her court appearance is May 15.
Read the complaint about the judge’s action by the arresting officer here:
It’s the second time in a month when a judge was found to have aided and abetted criminally illegal immigrants.
On Thursday, federal agents arrested a former New Mexico judge and his wife for harboring an illegal immigrant who allegedly has ties to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan transnational criminal gang.
President Donald Trump has claimed that state and local officials have interfered with his administration’s immigration enforcement policies, which differ from his predecessor, President Joe Biden, who had an open-border, no-enforcement policy.
The county immediately issued three statements about Dugan’s arrest, none of them showing concern about the violent illegal alien who was trying to evade officers with the alleged help of the judge. The statements are:
Milwaukee County Supervisors Affirm Commitment to Due Process Following Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan
Apr-25-2025
Milwaukee County Supervisor and 1st Vice Chair Steven Shea, 2nd Vice Chair Priscilla E. Coggs-Jones, Supervisors Juan Miguel Martinez, Jack Eckblad, Sequanna Taylor, Sky Z. Capriolo, Felesia A. Martin and Anne O’Connor issued the following statement:
Statement on Courthouse Safety After Milwaukee Judge’s Arrest
Apr-25-2025
County Board Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson, Supervisor Caroline Gómez-Tom, and Supervisor Juan Miguel Martinez issued the following statements addressing the mounting concern over the FBI’s arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley Statement on the Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan
Apr-25-2025
Outside the courthouse, protesters stood with signs decrying the injustice of the arrest of the judge.
A judge, of all people, should understand the implications and consequences of obstructing justice.
so if a governor doesn’t comply with orders, wishes or decrees? start with the street sweepers and head to the clergy, then the judges. think history has seen this movie. get your popcorn and draft deferment for bone spurs ready
When the number of dirty dem judges arrested and prosecuted hits 1,000, I will start to believe there is hope for the Republics restoration.
It’s going to need to be similar and severe consequences for a whole lot more of these lawbreakers that are abusing their positions of power, or they will finally and entirely succeed in subverting justice. No delay.
Polite society hangs by a thread.
Well we’ll see what happens in court. But what’s really interesting in all of this is the way that Trump is making illegals a scapegoat as if they are the largest problem in the country. The parallels to how Hitler did the same with the German Jews in the 1930s are striking and horrifying. And as always, the cruelty is intended to be both the point, and the entertainment.
Soon, concerns over illegal immigration will fade with the general population as a crashing economy, caused by Trump’s mismanagement, hijacks their attention.
It’ time to bring this Clown Show to an end. People don’t want it or like it, and DJT’s ratings are continuing to fall.
Ahem… dog, your inner commie is showing.
Sorry Dog but you miss by a mile on this one. There is absolutely no parallel betwen Hitlers’ horrific treatment of law biding, productive Jewish citizens and Trumps’ roundup of illegal criminal aliens. Get a grip.
What exactly, then, makes Hitler’s “horrific treatment of law biding, productive Jewish citizens” any better, or more justifiable Dave? I think you need to reexamine your logic.
the “LAW-ABIDING” part here is key….Illegal Aliens are not LAW-ABIDING by definition. and that’s before the whole gang-affiliation part is brought in.
The term “illegal” in illegal alien.
I’m not sure what these people thought when they put all this faith in the cult of personality that is Trump, but I doubt this is it. I imagine many Republicans are waking up from their anti-woke trance, and just now realizing how baldly they messed up.
But cults die hard, it won’t be an easy path to recovery. It’s really unfortunate for the whole country.
I hope that you are right, but I fear that most MAGA disciples will double down, continuing in their self-delusion, rather than admit to themselves, and expose to their fellow MAGA adherents, that they were wrong.
Even empty shelves, reduced old-age benefits, flaming 401ks, and global loss of respect won’t be enough to open their eyes.
Empty shelves like we had when Sec. Pete was running the DOT?
SS just went up for a lot of retirees. Maybe you missed it?
My 401(k) had plummeted to what it was last August. It pushed my retirement date back zero days.
And there are dozens of countries that are now treating the US as equal trading partners, and partners in stopping violent crime. Not sure where this loss of respect you are talking about is…
The judge was hiding criminals. One had a photo of himself at a gun range shooting ARs. Don’t the Democrats want gun control and bans on ARs?? Total hypocrisy and just blame Trump for everything.
I image your imagination is out of control. And incorrect.
I’m pretty sure this is what we were all hoping for…. But leftoids like yourself will never understand a desire to have a safe secure country where our young people can have a chance to get good blue collar jobs that provide a liveable income and a small chance at a retirement. You might want to check your cult card at the door. When you still have a country to trash in ten years you can thank us all.
Epic fail, Whidbey. Epic fail. Your lack of understanding of history is alarming.
Well in the last two years I’ve read approximately 1600 pages about Hitler and WW2 in Europe. There is nothing faulty with my understanding of how he used and scapegoated a marginalized group in order to inflame the citizenry and ascend to power.
The fact that you think there are any “parallels to how Hitler did the same with the German Jews in the 1930s” and illegal aliens suggests that maybe the 1600 pages you’ve read about Hitler and WWII were completely lost on you, or maybe you are reading books that are historically flawed or perhaps from the perspective of those who lost the war. What you have said here is as historically ignorant and as shameful as it was when people were wearing yellow arm bands attempting to make the exact same idiotic comparison of history and covid shots. Instead of admitting you went too far and said something stupid you’ve doubled down and highlighted your ignorance.
It wasn’t long ago that I defended your postings here, since then you’ve really gone downhill and I can only hope this is your rock bottom, because what you’ve said here is the absolute worst comment you’ve made in a long line of not very well thought out comments.
Shame you didn’t read those pages before the 0bama and Biden admits.
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Maybe you missed Biden’s speech in front of Freedom hall?
1600 pages? Over 2 years!
Wow, impressive. Not.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is over 1200 pages alone.
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I’ve read more pages in the last week. If you are trying to demonstrate expertise try again.
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There is an old adage about keeping one’s mouth shut. Practice it.
Federal Supremacy in such matters is well defined in the Constitution.
These judges along with their political allies need to get spanked, and hard.
The fact that Ms. Dugan happens to be an employee of the State of Wisconsin is irrelevant to whether she committed a federal crime. If she did the crime, she should do the time. The Feds also should take a look at her minions. If they obstructed or hindered, they should be taken into Federal custody snd charged.
Also Suzanne they are not immigrants, my grandfather was an immigrant. These are illegal Aliens. Let’s call them what they are.. the democrats love gangbangers and drug dealers clearly with a special fetish for murdering illegal Aliens.
If we as Americans tried to enter most any country on earth illegally you would find yourself in the crowbar hotel indefinitely. That includes Australia and New Zealand. Why would we let foreigners in unchecked..??
Political arrests and disappearances, injustice, cruelty, deliberate attempts at shattering our Constitutional Rights, new wars, economic turmoil…
Have I missed anything?
What new wars do we have?? Who has disappeared? Economic turmoil or Trump cleaning up decades of mismanagement? Might want to rethink your statement.
You remember the Obama/Biden/Harris years well.
You are right on the money coffee. American people need to wake up. If this country is lost everyone looses. And the liberals will have lost the most because their ability to shoot their mouths off non stop will come to an end. If we lose our freedom it will never be recovered. Socialism hasn’t worked anywhere else on earth.
Yes, the liberals did many bad things during the last four years. It looks like your list hits the highlights of the atrocious Biden administration. Don’t forget draining the petroleum reserve, 40 percent of his time on vacation, the horrible Afghanistan withdrawl, the open borders, forced indoctrination through dei training, massive spending, increasing inflation, gutting the value of the dollar.
Have I missed anything?
Mutilation of children with the parent’s concerns shunned?
Trump getting arrested on dozens of BS charges during an election. Peacful J6 protesters who never entered any buildings and never got anywhere near any violence dragged from their homes in the night and held in prison for four years “awaiting trial”. Federal government colluding with NGOs to bring planeload after planeload after busload of illegal aliens into our country. The democrats insisting that”no one is above the law”. Yeah, maybe you missed all that…
Nope
You assumed up 2021-2024 really well.
Summer up…
Damn autocorrect…
Summed up!
I think autocorrect is out to get me…
Such sweet payback against reckless lawfare and law-breaking leftist judges. All the Democrats have remaining to run to are the Obama and Biden appointed federal judges and their counterparts at the state level. The Executive Branch, both chambers of Congress and the Supreme Court will not tolerate the illegal and politically driven lower court judiciary and their anti-American antics. I hope this
judge gets thrown into the cooler, disbarred, and further punished for judicial misconduct. This should be a lesson to all of these cowardly judges who hide in their black robes.
Well-stated.
Interesting that the left always reaches into their reservoir of Nazi horrors to apply to the Trump Administration. There are NO parallels. The horror is 15 million illegal aliens that the democrats allowed into the country the past four years. We have no idea who these people are. Now we are trying to deport known gang members who came into this country illegally. Why are democrats protecting violent illegal aliens that they would be terrified to living next to them?
We will see how this pans out in court.
I hope this judge gets exactly the same treatment President Trump got in NYC.
By that I assume you mean receiving an unconditional discharge and never actually being sentenced after his 34-count felony conviction? Yeah, that would be a great outcome.
Democrat Kangaroo courts in New York don’t count. Notice how post election it’s all been dropped and forgotten. The goal was character assassination and it failed, just like the Democrat’s two failed assassination attempts on Trump’s life. Democrat=failure.
Complete kangaroo court whidbey. By the week I see how hollow you are. Pitiful.
Tried and convicted by 12 of his peers, all of whom probably held higher ethical standards than the man upon whom they exercised their fair and impartial judgement.
No I mean the judge denying the defense the right to call a witness that would harm the prosecution’s case.
And the judge will be allowed to sit on the bench even after donating to a partisan political campaign in violation of the State’s ethics rules.
And hand selecting a judge openly hostile to the defendant.
And allowing the prosecution unlimited latitude with objections, while denying most of the defenses.
And only allowing the defense the ability to reject 10 potential jurors.
And refusing a request for change of venue, despite a clear bias in the area against the defendent.
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And the list can go on and on, but that’s enough for now.
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And unconditional discharge IS a sentence. Bummer if you don’t like it.
It may be a sentence if you want to split hairs, but it certainly is not a punishment.
So, by your own admission, Trump was sentenced. Which means you previous statement was an outright lie.
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And? This has what, exactly to do with a judge that violated the law? Or with my desire to see her get the same in court treatment that Trump recieved?
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You leftists insist Trump got a fair trial. I would like to see you say the same when this woman gets the same treatment.
It’s (D)ifferent when they do it. TDS clouds their judgment to the point where they break the law to show how much they hate Trump. Let them. Arrest and try them. Then send them to federal prison. And replace them with conservative judges that will uphold the real Constitution, not the CNN-MSNBC constitution. Please.
My wildest dream, a crooked judge doing time in the general population at the Wisconsin State Prison.
Dems could care less about the welfare of illegal aliens, the reason for the fight is for votes, the longer they are in the USA it is just another illegal vote they can count on, and if they do take the White House again border the will be wide open, deportation will stop. So watch the shell game, they have a plan. After all it is 15,000,000 votes!
It’s interesting how the Democrats yell no one is above the law. Until it’s one of them.
That judge is sworn to uphold the law it doesn’t matter if she disagrees with it or not. Aiding and abetting a fugitive is illegal for everyone.
Hope you all like paying for lawsuits
The Fed is snatching people up and all the fascists are cheering because they don’t know what’s coming next. All the smart people left in 2024.
Illegal aliens are criminals. Criminals should be arrested.
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I cheer when the police arrest criminals. If you don’t, you are the problem.
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Show me a single instance where the Trump administration snatched up someone who wasn’t breaking the law.
ICE needs to get busy right here in Alaska and get the illegals out. Check employment places, and go thru every property management group, every small business and neighborhoods with questionable living circumstances. Loads of places to look.
Explain unlawful?
Explain how many cases that had been previously bought before her now will get overturned just in the basis “corrupt judge”
Bad day for judge
Good day for people who lost because of her. Get ready for the massive lawsuits.
How many cases will get overturned? I have no idea. But it will likely be more than one.
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Which is why the ethical requirements for legal professionals, especially judges is so stringent. Do something so obviously illegal as this, and how many rightfully convicted criminals will get another trial, or a free pass? Too many.