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TWO Democrat Judges ARRESTED, a Shocking Pattern of Dems Breaking the Law in support of Illegal Alien Gang Members

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Well, that's right. And there's a lot happening across this country, especially when it comes to illegal immigration. As we all know, the president came in and began securing the border pretty much immediately. We saw the numbers of illegal border crossings drop more than 99 percent.

And there are new poll numbers out now that show the American people strongly support President Trump's efforts finding and deporting illegal immigrants. And yet Democrats keep doubling down. They have decided they are the party of illegal immigration and they're the party of gangs.

One of the more stunning developments is they're not one, but two Democrat judges currently in jail, in custody, because their party is so radical that both of these judges are charged with, in one case, harboring a Trender Aragwa gang member in the judge's house. In another case, the judge trying to secrete an illegal immigrant out of the courtroom and avoid and obstruct access

Federal agents arresting that illegal immigrant. Both of those judges have been arrested. We're going to break that down as well. And we're seeing a Democrat party that no matter how extreme the open border problem gets, they are demonstrating they will not waver. They want more and more gang members. It's pretty stunning.

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Yeah, no, it has been a rough playoff series so far. The Rockets are the No. 2 seed. The Warriors are the No. 7 seed. So the Rockets...

should have the advantage, although this is the first time in a long time that the number two seed is the underdog in the betting lines. And part of it is because Golden State is a ridiculously strong seven seed. And in particular, Golden State traded and got Jimmy Butler towards the end of the season. And when you have both Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler playing together, that is a frightening team that is a much stronger team

team than a seventh seed the golden state could easily win it all you've got a lot of experience and and you got a lot of veterans the rockets look i like this rockets team they're young they're talented their defense is is amazing uh they they dominate the boards they they pull down offensive boards

But they're very young. And so the first playoff game, the first playoff game was painful to watch. They that it looked like they were nervous. They dribbled the ball off their feet. There were turnovers. They were missing free throws. And Golden State just just won in a dominating fashion. Now, game two was great. The Rockets came back, played really strong. Game two was terrific.

But then game three, game three, the Rockets had a real opportunity because Jimmy Butler was out. He didn't play.

And so the Rockets should have won game three. And I got to say, it was not a good night shooting for the Rockets. They lost 104 to 93. And I'll say Steph Curry is just a beast. I mean, he played 41 minutes. He played more than any player in the game. He scored 36 points. And he just lit up.

lit up the Rockets. And Steph Curry, he's going down in history as one of, if not the greatest shooter to ever play the game. He's a baller. Let's just be honest. The guy's a baller. It's unbelievable. Yeah, no, his... And you look at Curry's numbers in Game 3. He went 12 for 23.

So he shot 52% from the field. From three-point, he went five for 13, so 38.5%. Seven of eight from the free-throw line. And Steph Curry just willed them into the game. I'll say game four, you know, people say this a lot, but to say it's a must-win game is

is an understatement. If the Rockets get down 3-1, that is virtually impossible to come back from. They'd have to win three in a row. So I haven't been able to make any of the games this time. I hope the series goes long, and I'll certainly make it to playoff games as it goes forward if I can make it on the schedule. But I've been watching them and DVRing them, and I'll be watching on TV tomorrow night. And by the way, just so people know how authentic this is,

If you're new to the show, I think it's fair to say this. You're obsessed with basketball. It's your sport. You love it. And you play several days a week.

So you and I are recording this right now at 1224 a.m. Sunday night. The reason we're recording it at 1224 a.m. is that I've been playing hoops from 845 till about 1115, and I play every Sunday night. And so often, unfortunately, we have to do the podcast after basketball. I'll tell you, it was rough because the guy whose house we play at, he has a half court that he's built in his house, but he left the AC off.

And I'll tell you, in Houston, it was like playing in a sauna. We were all dripping wet because it was about 88 degrees in the gym as we played. I don't recommend that.

Yeah, that's not a good idea. But this is something that you love. You do it every week. So when playoff season comes, this is when you torture yourself. And I bleed Rockets red. I mean, I've grown up. I've been a Rockets fan my whole life. I was at Game 7 in 94 when we won the NBA Finals and beat the Knicks. It was the first championship Houston had ever won in any sport. It was beautiful. It was amazing. It was in the Summit, which now is Lakewood Church.

And I remember, like I said, Houston had never won a championship until we won that in 94. You were not a Houstonian at that time. I'll tell you what it did for the city. Literally out on Richmond Avenue, outside the stadium, there were businessmen in three-piece suits crying and hugging homeless men. That's how it brought the city together. And then the next year, 95, we won the finals again. We swept...

Who were the stars then? So who were the stars back then? Hakeem Olajuwon. Hakeem Olajuwon is the greatest Rocket to ever play, and Hakeem won both of those series and both of those finals. In 1995, Clyde Drexler came and joined him, and Hakeem and Clyde had been teammates at University of Houston, Faisal Amidjama, where...

where they were incredible and made it to the Final Four but did not win it all in college. And the two of them, we got Clyde from Portland, and he was, as you know, in my office, I have a piece of the floor of the Summit office

that is signed by that 95 Rockets championship team. And Tillman Fertitta, the team owner, is a good friend. He's going to be the ambassador to Italy, and he's going to do a great job as ambassador to Italy. But it is fun. Cheering on the Rockets is fun. Look, they've got the talent. This is a team...

That could win the NBA Finals. A challenge right now is the Rockets don't have a superstar who can dominate a game at the end. And you've got to have that. I mean, that's the X factor. They've got an eight-man rotation that can score double digits pretty consistently. But, you know, Shengu in their center is really good. But he's not Steph Curry. Now, nobody's Steph Curry. But I do think...

most of the team is quite young for, for many of the, the, the team, it's their first playoffs ever. And the playoffs are just more intense. The playoffs also, you play a lot more half court basketball, which means defenses can clamp down on you. And, and so the Rockets have got to find a way to score at the end when it's, you know, two minutes to go and the game's on the line. It's not clear who's going to be the guy right now. Uh,

And maybe it has to be another season and a trade or picking up a free agent. You know, I think if you added one superstar to this lineup, it's a team that could go all the way. Whether they can do it this year, right now, it looks pretty uphill.

Yeah, it's going to be very interesting. Game tonight, I have a feeling a lot of people listening right now will be watching tonight. My prediction, we're going to win tonight. That's my prediction. I don't know if we can pull the series out because Curry and Butler together is really tough, but I think we're going to win game four. I think we're going to see. In fact, I'm going to make another prediction. I'm going to say we're going to see a monster game tonight.

from a man Thompson who, who is really talented. He's got a lot of skills, didn't play great in, in game three, but, but, but I think, I think we're going to see a great game from him tonight. I love it. All right. Speaking of winning the president's winning on one big issue is we're hitting the a hundred day Mark. And that is the issue of Americans are all in on deportations of illegal immigrants. Even though the media has spent just countless hours, uh,

Yeah.

Yeah, I got to say, to say the American people are all in on it, I think is too strong, Ben. There's a CBS poll that came out. The question they asked, do you approve or disapprove of the Trump administration's program to find and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally? And the answer was approve 56, disapprove 44. That's that's a 12 point lead that that's a meaningful lead.

But I don't think we should overstate it. That means 44% disapprove. We remain a divided country, which is how Democrats got elected to begin with and were able to put in the open borders. It's interesting. You break down the poll numbers by age and party identification and race. So young people age 18 to 29 approve of Trump's deportation, 52-48, so plus four.

People age 30 to 44 approve $52.48, so again, plus four. And then you get to 45 years old, and boom, the numbers jump up. So ages 45 to 64 is $60.40, so plus 20. And over 65 is $59.41, plus 18. So there is a real divide between people who are under 45 versus over 45. You want to break it down by party identification.

Among Republicans, it's 90-10, so it's plus 80. Republicans are pretty damn happy with the deportations. Among Independents...

The approve, disapprove is 54-46. That's plus eight. That's encouraging. And then Democrats, it's 22-78. So that's 56 points down. But it's interesting. 22% of Democrats approve of what Trump is doing, deporting illegal immigrants. That's an encouraging number, too, although it shows just how messed up Democrats are, that 78% of them are like, no, no, no, no, leave the criminals here.

You break it down by race, that there are clear racial differences among whites and

It's 62-38, so that's a 24-point advantage. Among African Americans, it's 44-56. So that's minus 12, which is not terrible, given that Republicans typically get a lot less than that of the African American vote. And among Hispanics, on this poll, it's 44-56, so that's minus 12 as well. And then finally, the gender gap, which is interesting. Men...

approve of the deportation, 63-37, so that's a 26-point advantage. Women are evenly divided, 50-50. And finally, white with no degree, 68-32, that's plus 36, and white with a four-year degree, a college degree,

Approve 52-48, a four-point advantage. All told, the American people are still with the president, but we remain a divided country. So when you look at what this means moving forward for the president, I do think it's clear that he's saying, hey,

I've got a mandate to continue doing what I promised that I got elected on. And now you bring in a bigger issue, and that's the lawfare, because you now have judges that are actively fighting against the president, doing what he said he was going to do on behalf of the American people, and having this 12-point-plus advantage on this issue. This is, I guess, the new play for the Democrats to stop it. Well, it's striking. There are now two judges in jail because—

because they have decided they're so all in on open borders that they're going to actively obstruct federal law enforcement. So on Friday, the FBI arrested a Wisconsin judge for hiding a previously deported illegal immigrant in her jury room in order to try to stop him from being arrested by ICE. And this is Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, who was arrested and charged with obstruction of an official proceeding

After it came forward, Dugan demanded that the ICE officers proceed to the chief judge's office. And after his hearing ended, she escorted this illegal immigrant and his attorney out a restricted jury door, bypassing the public area where the agents were waiting and she was trying to help him avoid arrest.

It didn't work. They they ended up they ended up catching this illegal immigrant anyway. And I got to say, it really is striking to see a judge in handcuffs. But the reality is this is where so many Democrats are that they will actively obstruct. And I will say there was a back and forth Amy Klobuchar and I had.

On this issue. So Amy, who's Democrat senator from Minnesota, she tweeted out, this is not normal. The administration's arrest of a sitting judge in Wisconsin is a drastic move that threatens the rule of law. While we don't have all the details, this is a grave step and undermines our system of checks and balances. And I responded to her. I quote tweeted her. And here's what I said. Fully agree.

It is not normal for a sitting judge to actively obstruct law enforcement and try to smuggle a criminal illegal alien out a side door. Today's Democrat Party is so extreme that utterly lawless behavior is becoming more and more common.

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I think we need to make it abundantly clear. This is a judge, and you mentioned this a moment ago, that was obstructing the arrest of an illegal alien. That is against the law. Law enforcement was there to arrest him. Right.

She didn't want him to be arrested. So she sent them one way and then she snuck him out a side door through the jury room and they had to run and catch him on foot because she was actively. You know what? If there's a criminal and the police are trying to apprehend him and you hide him and help him sneak away, you'll be arrested. That's that is called obstruction. Right.

But what's remarkable is this judge is not an outlier. There's another story that follows that is amazing. This is a headline from Fox News. Quote, Wisconsin judge threatens courtroom boycott over Hannah Dugan arrest. Monica Isham says she will not allow ICE to send illegal immigrants to a, quote, concentration camp. Let me just read from the beginning of this article because it's astonishing. A Wisconsin judge is threatening not to hold court.

in protest of federal authorities arresting her fellow judge Hannah Dugan last week. Judge Monica Isha made the announcement in an email to judges across the state on Saturday. Her email, titled, quote, guidance requested or I refuse to hold court, made clear that she had no intentions of working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Quote, if there is no guidance for us and no support for us, I will refuse to hold court in Branch 2 in Sawyer County. I will not put myself or my staff who may feel compelled to help me or my community in harm's way, Esham wrote, according to a copy of the email obtained by Wisconsin Right Now. Quote,

I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE and sent to a concentration camp, especially without due process, as both of the constitutions we swore to support require. Should I start raising bail money? She wrote, quote, if this costs me my job or gets me arrested, then at least I know I did the right thing. So this is a judge.

who is saying she's going to shut her courtroom down. Why? Because she so opposes illegal immigrants actually being deported. In other words, federal law being followed, that she's willing to shut her courtroom down. That's how extreme Democrats have gotten. So when you combine this and these types of arrests,

There is no inclination here that this is preemptively a idea or a mindset by the DOJ or anybody else. This is reactionary to these activist judges, and that's something that the media is also distorting. Well, it is, and I will say, look, there's another story out of New Mexico, which is former Dona Ana County magistrate judge Joel Cano, 67, his wife Nancy Cano, 68, said,

are in custody right now. They were arrested by Homeland Security at their Las Cruces home. They were arrested for harboring a gang member, a Tren de Aragua gang member, in their home. And this Tren de Aragua gang member, he's covered in gang tattoos. And the judge faces charges of tampering with evidence. Now, you know what he did?

What was that? He took this Venezuelan gang member's cell phone, smashed it with a hammer because it had incriminating evidence of the gang member with firearms, and then he went and disposed of the cell phone. So he was trying to hide evidence. Now, do you know one of the pictures that was on the cell phone, allegedly, that the judge destroyed with a hammer?

I'm going to guess it's probably one of those good old gang sign pictures, right? Because that's always what the gang members have on their phone. No, it's worse than that. It's a picture of two victims who are decapitated. Wow. We're not talking...

nice, fuzzy, friendly gang members. We're not talking, as the media loves to call the illegal immigrant up in Maryland, a, quote, Maryland man. This is a gang member who allegedly had pictures of two people with their heads cut off on the cell phone. And what does a Democrat judge do in New Mexico? Well, you got a gang member. He says, hey, let me hide you in my house. And here, give me that phone because they could use that to prosecute you. I'm going to smash it with a hammer.

and dispose of it so they don't have the evidence to convict you. That is bizarre. And that is a Democrat judge. The attorney general, by the way, she came out strong and said, we're not backing down when we see this type of activism. Here's part of what she had to say on Fox. And to set the stage for you and Sandra, this was truly horrific.

this guy was in court being prosecuted by a state prosecutor for domestic violence battery he had beat up two people a guy and a girl beat the guy hit the guy thirty times knocked him to the ground choked him beat up a woman so badly

So badly they both had to go to the hospital. And John, you know it's so rare for victims to want to cooperate. They wanted to cooperate. They were sitting in the courtroom with the state prosecutor. The judge learns that ICE was outside to get the guy because he had been deported in 2013, came back in our country, commits these crimes, charged with committing these crimes, victims in court. Judge finds out. She goes out in the hallway, screams at the immigration officers. She's furious, visibly shaken,

upset, sends them off to talk to the chief judge. She comes back in the courtroom. You're going to believe this takes the defendant and the defense attorney back in her chambers, takes them out of private exit and tells them to leave while a state prosecutor and victims of domestic violence are sitting in the courtroom.

You hear her explaining this and you got to think the majority of Americans, if they know that story, they're going to be outraged just as outraged as she is. Yeah, no, that's exactly right. And I want to play a second clip from from Pam Bondi where she's talking about the New Mexico judge, because this is not this is not a crazy outlier. Unfortunately, this is a pattern. Give a listen to the attorney general talking about this New Mexico judge harboring a trend or Agua gang member in his home.

I mean, when you look at the associations with this violent Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, and this person that they harbored in their home, he was showing signs through clothing, we were told, tattoos. There was evidence through voice messages and text messages of his association to TDA. So what charges will Cano and his wife face, if any?

So Judge Cano, soon to be former Judge Cano, got, he got, his charges were just unsealed. He's charged with obstruction. He is charged, he admitted post Miranda. He took one of the TDA members' cell phones,

himself took it, beat it with a hammer, destroyed it, and then walked the pieces to a city dumpster to dispose of it to protect him. The wife also is charged with destroying evidence. Sandra, not only that, this TDA member, and he had on a necklace that said kill, something about death. He had tattoos all over him. He also had on his cell phone

pictures of two decapitated victims. Two victims decapitated, gruesome photos. And he was sending them out and whoever he was sending them to was sending back saying, "Hey, you need to be careful. You shouldn't be sending these. You shouldn't be texting these photos out." Not only that,

These two, the judge and his wife, gave him assault rifles that belonged to their daughter. That's what they're charged with. In the criminal report affidavit, he goes to a shooting range with these assault rifles, with a suppressor, with other known TDA members in their shooting. This is the last person that we want in our country, nor will we ever tolerate a judge or anyone else harboring them.

I'm just so glad we have an attorney general. You're good friends with Pam. We've had her on the show that is able to articulate this the way that she is to continue to combat the lies are being put out there about who is actually getting arrested, who we're targeting and who we're trying to get out of the country.

No, that's exactly right, and it's the simple principle that no one is above the law. Here's what Kash Patel, the head of the FBI, tweeted out. Quote, Just now, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on charges of obstruction after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.

We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject, an illegal alien, to evade arrest. Thankfully, our agents chased down the perp on foot, and he's been in custody since. But the judge's obstruction created increased danger to the public. We will have more to share soon.

excellent work. And then the Attorney General Pam Bondi, she tweeted, I can confirm that our FBI agents just arrested Hannah Dugan, a county judge in Milwaukee, for allegedly helping an illegal alien avoid arrest by ICE. No one is above the law. Somehow Democrats believe that if they don't like a law, they can just ignore it. They can defy it. By the way, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did that for four years. They just utterly ignored federal immigration law. And

this attitude of lawlessness. We're not bound by the law. Not only that, we're going to actively fight federal law enforcement who is trying to enforce the law. And what are they doing this for? I mean, Ben, seriously, explain to me. Help me get in the head of, let's say, this New Mexico judge. New Mexico judge says,

You and your wife say, hey, we got some gang members from Venezuela. They're covered in tattoos. They've got a necklace that says kill. They have cell phones with pictures of people with their heads cut off. Let's bring them to my house. Like...

Explain to me that thought process. My brain is not nimble enough to get around this. See, this is where I think to myself. I'm like, all right, well, then there's got to be some sort of incentive that is connecting them. There's got to be something to gain here personally. Because I can't just imagine this judge is just like, yeah, genuinely want to hang out with people that are celebrating or involved in this type of criminal activity, including, as you described it, beheadings. Yeah, look.

You and I watch Breaking Bad. I don't know if this is a judge that's on the take, if there's corruption, if he's been paid by the gang. I don't know if he's ideological and stupid or corrupt or what. There's clearly more to this story we will learn. But the facts on the face of it...

are astonishing. And what's amazing, I don't know of a single Democrat elected official who's denounced this conduct by the judges. Instead, what they're saying is they're rushing to defend these judges that are brazenly, brazenly defying the law.

Yeah, it truly is incredible. Don't forget, we do the show Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Hit that subscribe or auto download button wherever you're listening to the show. Share the show, please, because this is exactly how we do it to get out this type of information. And the senator, I will see you back here on Wednesday morning.

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