Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) contended that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan’s advocates have “misplaced sympathy,” urging that judges “obstructing the law” must be investigated.
Cornyn’s assessment comes after the FBI arrested Dugan on Friday. She was accused of escorting an illegal immigrant and his lawyer out of her courtroom through a jury door inaccessible to the public last week to evade immigration authorities. The Texas senator noted how Dugan is accused of “egregious stuff” over her arrest, which comes as President Donald Trump is seeking to fulfill his “mandate” of enforcing the nation’s immigration laws.
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“And if it means that people, including elected officials like judges, are obstructing the law and obstructing that process, they should be investigated, and they should be prosecuted,” Cornyn assessed on Fox News’s The Faulkner Focus. “And so, this sounds like a case of misplaced sympathy by those who are somehow saying the judge is being treated unfairly.”
Harris Faulkner then discussed a new opinion piece by the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, in which he asked if Dugan would become “the next hero of the resistance” against Trump, as several protests have been held in support of the judge. In response, Cornyn contended there are “competing narratives” over this story, even though it seems “so far” that Dugan was “actively aiding and abetting” an illegal immigrant.
The Texas senator also suggested that members of the Democratic Party are “digging their own political grave” in resisting the Trump administration’s “common sense measures.” These include the administration threatening to take federal funds away from governors should they extend unemployment benefits to illegal immigrants. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer informed all 50 governors of this last week.
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On Monday, border czar Tom Homan joined White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to brief reporters on what the Trump administration has achieved to ramp up border security. Among the details discussed were 85 miles of border wall construction in the planning and construction stages, along with reiteration that Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia would not be returned to the United States.
Monday also saw the White House lawn decorated with 100 signs of alleged detained illegal immigrants, along with the crimes they are accused of committing. The signs were set up where TV reporters typically speak in front of the White House, prompting Voto Latino CEO Maria Teresa Kumar to call for the illegal immigrants’ faces to be censored.