FBI director Kash Patel said on Friday that agents arrested a county judge in Milwaukee to hinder the application of immigration. A spokesperson for the American marshals confirmed the arrest of an in-office judge, a major escalation of the Trump administration battle against the local authorities on deportations.
The office arrested judge Hannah Dugan suspected that she “intentionally ill -managed by federal agents far from” an immigrant prosecuted by the federal authorities, wrote Mr. Patel on social networks. He then deleted the position for reasons that were not immediately clear. An FBI spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Brady McCarron, spokesperson for American marshals, confirmed that the judge was arrested by FBI agents on Friday morning. The accusation document against the judge was not immediately available in the files of the Federal Court.
The Trump administration has promised to investigate and pursue local officials who do not help federal immigration application, denouncing what they call “sanctuary cities” so as not to do more to help federal apprehensions and deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants.
The Milwaukee case implies a frequent flash point in this debate, when immigration agents try to arrest undocumented immigrants who appear before the State Court. Local authorities are often confused in such efforts, arguing that they endanger public security if people dealing with relatively minor legal issues believe that it is not sure to enter the courts of justice.
In the first Trump administration, a local Massachusetts judge was charged by the Ministry of Justice to hinder the immigration authorities. The accusations were abandoned after the judge agreed to refer to a potential judicial discipline.
