Activist judges judged
Liberal judges have been making a mess of America’s immigration policy, but that could soon be changing. At the state level, a pair of obstructionists could soon trade their black robes for striped jumpsuits.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday that agents arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan for attempting to foil the capture of an illegal alien named Eduardo Flores-Ruiz. President Obama deported Flores-Ruiz back to Mexico in 2013, but he returned under Democratic open borders policies, only to find himself on trial for domestic battery.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials intended to arrest Flores-Ruiz at the courthouse when he showed up to answer for an alleged violent outburst where he punched his roommate in the face 30 times because he was “playing loud music.” He purportedly struck two women who tried to intervene.
According to witnesses, Judge Dugan became visibly agitated when she learned of this upstanding noncitizen’s pending apprehension. If prosecutors are to be believed, she created a distraction before whisking Flores-Ruiz through a secret exit door that jurors on sensitive trials use to leave the building unseen. The feds were surprised but not unprepared.
“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,” Mr. Patel wrote on X.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Dries freed her honor, accepting her promise to appear for a hearing on charges that carry a possible sentence of five years behind bars and a $250,000 fine.
G-men also paid a visit to the residence of Joel Cano to take the now-former New Mexico judge into custody for harboring Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, an illegal alien believed to be a Tren de Aragua gang member. Mr. Cano resigned in disgrace after the bizarre scandal hit the local papers.
ICE operatives were hunting a small group of gang members when they received a tip about the unusual relationship between one of the Venezuelan nationals and a judge. The Democratic jurist and his wife had openly taken Mr. Ortega-Lopez into their home.
The 23-year-old foreigner and his “undocumented immigrant” buddies from Venezuela were fond of posting selfies and videos on Facebook while shooting AR-15s, conveniently documenting their misconduct for the feds. It’s illegal for an illegal to possess a gun.
A judge ought to know that, but this one was convinced he was doing the right thing. Mr. Cano’s friends, neighbors and family even begged a federal court to release Mr. Ortega-Lopez and grant him citizenship.
“I took him in as my own son,” Nancy Cano wrote just before her arrest. “I wanted him to go through the proper procedure to remain in the United States so I assisted him.”
The Cano family either didn’t recognize or didn’t care about the telltale warning signs, such as the Spanish word for death tattooed on Mr. Ortega-Lopez’s neck. Investigators searched Mr. Ortega-Lopez’s three cellphones and found a text message conversation that included “photographs of two brutal murder victims that includes mutilated bodies, decapitated heads and dismembered hands.”
Democrats persist in overlooking brazen criminality. Various left-leaning members of Congress, such as Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, are condemning the handcuffing of judicial officers who obstruct justice.
Mr. Trump’s appointees respond to such complaints with the same trite line they heard so often from the leftists who attempted to incarcerate 2024’s leading Republican presidential candidate: “No one is above the law.
— The Washington Times