Specifically, the complaint says Dugan assisted Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican immigrant, avoid being arrested by federal immigration officials at the Milwaukee County Courthouse after he appeared in her courtroom for a pre-trial conference on April 18.

A judge in Milwaukee is accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities. The case immediately became a high-profile confrontation between the Trump administration and judiciary over the Republican administration’s immigration policies.

U.S. officials arrested a Wisconsin judge on Friday and charged her with helping a man in her court evade immigration authorities in an escalating dispute between President Donald Trump's administration and local officials over immigration enforcement.