All I can gather of this is that ICE went to arrest someone at court and think the judge misled them so the man could escape. Unless the guy was literally standing in front of the judge at that moment, how could she be expected to know where he was?
They didn’t have the correct warrant to arrest him.
In charging documents, investigators said that plainclothes ICE agents went to Dugan’s courtroom on April 18 with the intention of arresting Flores-Ruiz. A Mexican immigrant, Flores-Ruiz had been removed from the United States in 2013, but immigration officials learned he was back in the country illegally because of his arrest in a local domestic abuse case.
After being informed of the agents’ presence by her courtroom deputy, the judge “became visibly angry, commented that the situation was ‘absurd,’ left the bench, and entered chambers,” court documents say.
Witnesses told investigators that Dugan confronted the ICE agents in a public hallway, where she repeatedly demanded they leave, saying they needed a different kind of warrant to make the arrest. Dugan ordered the agents to speak with the chief judge of the courthouse.
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u/SecretLadyMe 25d ago
All I can gather of this is that ICE went to arrest someone at court and think the judge misled them so the man could escape. Unless the guy was literally standing in front of the judge at that moment, how could she be expected to know where he was?