DHS Deports Illegal Alien Who Milwaukee Judge Allegedly Tried To Help Evade Arrest
Trial set for December 15, 2025, in case against Judge Hannah Dugan, as prosecution files motion to prevent defense from making “appeals for the jury to decide the case based on their personal views of immigration policy and enforcement.”
You may remember Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan, who is facing federal charges for allegedly trying to help Eduardo Flores-Ruiz evade capture by ICE by leading him out a private courtroom exit.
Here’s just some of our prior coverage:
- FBI Arrests Milwaukee Judge for Allegedly Obstructing Immigration Arrest
- Wisconsin Judge Indicted for Helping Illegal Alien Evade ICE Claims “Judicial Immunity”
- Wisconsin Judge, Indicted for Helping Illegal Alien Evade ICE, Gets Support from 138 Retired Judges
- Judge Denies Milwaukee Judge’s Motion to Dismiss in ICE Obstruction Case
The court recently ordered the case to go to trial on December 15, 2025, and the court docket reveals various motions related to jury instructions and other pre-trial matters.
Someone who will not get to attend the trial is Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, who was just “removed” from the United States, according to a DHS press release (emphasis in original):
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the removal of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico who was arrested in April, despite a judge attempting to help him evade arrest.
On April 18, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), assisted by deputized FBI law enforcement officials, carried out a targeted operation to arrest Flores-Ruiz, a violent criminal illegal alien at the Milwaukee County Courthouse. His laundry list of violent criminal charges includes strangulation and suffocation, battery, and domestic abuse.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested for obstructing the arrest of Flores-Ruiz. Judge Dugan intentionally directed ICE agents away from this criminal illegal alien to obstruct the arrest and try to help him evade arrest. Thankfully, our law enforcement chased down this violent illegal alien and arrested him. ICE removed this criminal on November 13, 2025.
“Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a previously removed illegal alien has a laundry list of violent criminal charges, including strangulation and suffocation, battery, and domestic abuse. Judge Hannah Dugan’s actions to obstruct this violent criminal’s arrest take ‘activist judge’ to a whole new meaning,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Thanks to the brave men and women of ICE law enforcement, this criminal is OUT of our country. If you are here illegally and break the law, we will hunt you down, arrest you, and remove you from our country. That’s a promise.”
Flores-Ruiz entered the U.S. illegally in 2013 and was arrested by Border Patrol in Nogales, Arizona and was removed to Mexico. He chose to commit a felony by illegally re-entering the U.S. at an unknown date and time.
Expect the defense to try for jury nullification – i.e., getting an anti-Trump juror or jurors to refuse to convict someone opposing ICE. It’s a real possibility. The government has filed a motion to prevent such tactics (as of this writing it has not been ruled upon):
“to prohibit defendant from presenting evidence, argument, or remarks designed to induce jury nullification, including, but not limited to appeals for the jury to decide the case based on their personal views of immigration policy and enforcement; ….”
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Comments
Here’s an idea, Keep the alien. Deport the judge. Less harm that way.
They’d need a special aircraft to deport the bovine Judge.
Sikorsky helicopter
C-5M
You have to be suspicious of a judge who wears a robe the size of a tent.
Or a really big boat.
One down 49 million to go. Sdssnn
The dumbass jury will let her off. Take it to the bank.
Process is the punishment. The judge did the crime, and even if the trial results in a juror deciding to elevate political bias over justice, the prosecution should take place.
Hmm, the FIJA people will be on her side on this one.
Pinochet has a process…
As a cheesehead (writing this as I’m watching the Packer/Giants game) I have been following this incident closely.
Thank-you Mr. J, for keeping on this and offering info hard to find, if at all, locally.
But here is some interesting conflation from the local leftist rag (a.k.a. The Milwaukee Urinal Sentinal),…
Two days ago:
Dugan’s attorneys also repeatedly cited [Chief Justice]Ashley’s draft policy, which instructed people to “promptly” refer agents to their managers.
“Court personnel may not authorize the entry of immigration agency personnel into the nonpublic areas of any Court facility; and must promptly refer immigration agency personnel to their immediate supervisor or manager,” the filing reads, quoting the draft policy.
It adds, “If an immigration agency officer insists on access to a non-public area, the employee should not resist but should say, ‘I do not consent, but because I have no other choice at this time, I will not interfere with your order’ and immediately contact their supervisor about the officer’s order, prepare a written statement about the encounter, and submit it to their supervisor.”
And this, same rag, from seven months ago, April 29, four days after Dugan’s arrest:
Milwaukee County Chief Judge Carl Ashley said federal agents have leeway to operate in the hallways of the Milwaukee County Courthouse, even if they only have what’s known as an administrative warrant.
Asked to comment on the April 25 arrest of Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, Ashley said a formal policy for access to the courthouse is still being drafted but the county faces “limitations on what we can do.”
“The reality is, for my colleagues, we don’t have control in the public hallways,” Ashley said.
As you can see, Dugan and her lawyers continue lying, as they claim Dugan was just following orders.
This, while falsely equating “promptly refer” with actual threats and forcing federal agents to physically move from a public space (a courthouse hallway) to specific nonpublic space (the Chief Judge’s office), and while hoping no one notices the orders they claim she was following specifically states any actions to take are based on attempts by federal agents to access nonpublic spaces.
And lastly, a few days ago Dugan’s team filed yet another fallacious motion claiming the fed agents had agreed with Dugan’s deceptions because they didn’t arrest Flores-Ruiz until after he was (running away) outside the courthouse. Of course, they don’t mention that Dugan had sent the agents to the Chief Judge’s office while she tried to sneak him out, or that she missed identifying one agent in the public space – the guy who saw Flores-Ruiz being lead to an elevator – and alerted other agents.
BTW, Dugan is still on paid leave. $175,000.
(And Packers win!)
Amputate left foot of all deportees. before repatriating; harder to come back into USA that way, easier to identify if they do.
Milwaukee Judge Dugan Claims She Was Following Orders in Helping Illegal Alien Flee Feds
.. so it’s a conspiracy
OK, now what happens when the defense requests a “missing witness” instruction to the jury? You know, the instruction that allows the jury to conclude that the testimony of the missing witness, had he been called to testify, would have been prejudicial to the party that could have produced him at trial but didn’t?