A peer of Wisconsin judge that the FBI arrested For having pretended to help a undocumented immigrant to avoid the application of federal immigration, his arrest was supposed to intimidate the judiciary by the Trump administration.
“I think they are trying to send a message to cool the judiciary,” said Wisconsin's appeal judge Pedro Colón
“They want to create circumstances and a culture where people are unstable of their rights, their duties and the way we take our jobs,” continued Colón.
Colón's comments one day came after the FBI charged the County Circuit Judge of Milwaukee Hannah Dugan with obstruction and hide the individual from arrest.
Colón said he has known Dugan for over 15 years through the legal community and described him as “an impartial ethical judge”.
Since President Donald Trump took office this year, his administration repressed the immigration and the arrest of Dugan highlights his aggressive immigration approach application.
According to court documents, witnesses said that Dugan had confronted the federal in civilian agents on April 18 who were trying to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican immigrant who had been expelled from the United States in 2013. Flores-Ruiz was to be in the hearing room of Dugan for an unrelated case.
Dugan would have demanded that the agents will leave a public corridor in the courthouse and said they needed another type of mandate to arrest, according to documents. She would then have ordered Flores-Ruiz and her lawyer to leave by a “jury door”, which leads to a non-public zone of the courthouse, according to court documents.
This 2016 photo shows judge Hannah Dugan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. – Lee Matz / Milwaukee Independent / AP / File
Colón, an in -office, said that Dugan's arrest is an example of the Trump administration wanting the judicial system “essentially succumbs to their power and their political priorities regardless of constitutional rights and other rights that people have”.
“I think what they want to do is have essentially having the judiciary not only in Wisconsin, but the independent state magistrates … Succus essentially to their power and their political priorities independent of constitutional rights and other rights that people have,” he said.
“This is not how we do business in a democratic country, in a democratic country. The reality is that we will settle constitutional rights and we do not allow anyone including the government, including Mr. Patel, including anyone who has more rights than anyone,” added Colón, referring to the director of FBI Kash Patel, which posted a photo of Dugan Menotté and escorted to a vehicle by the police.
Colón expressed his concerns about the impacts of Dugan's arrest in the court and the people who come there to ask for justice.
“What they are essentially created is chaos,” said Colón. “I expect fewer people to appear for their criminal appearances in court. I expect the victims to be afraid of coming to court. ”
When asked by Lah, why the Americans should worry about the arrest of Dugan in the middle of the influx of short stories from the White House, Colón issued a striking warning on the threat that the Trump administration poses for democracy.
“Why should you worry?” Colón asked: “Because if our constitutional structure continues to decrease in the way they intentionally dislodging it, we will not have any democracy that works.”
Hannah Rabinowitz from CNN, Michael Williams and Devan Cole contributed to this report.
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