What happened? According to the criminal complaint against Dugan, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers (ICE) set out to arrest Mexican national Eduardo Flores-Ruiz for being in the U.S. illegally.

Hannah Dugan faces charges of concealing a person and obstruction after prosecutors allege she interfered when ICE agents attempted to arrest Eduardo Flores Ruiz at the Milwaukee courthouse in April.

By Diana Novak Jones and Andrew Goudsward MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A U.S. prosecutor told a jury on Monday that a Wisconsin judge "crossed the line" when she allegedly helped a migrant appearing in her courtroom evade an immigration arrest,

Lawyers for Dugan plan to tell the jury she followed courthouse policies directing staff to alert a supervisor about the presence of ICE agents and had acted in good faith.

Was Judge Hannah Dugan trying to obstruct a proceeding or trying to run her courtroom when ICE agents came to arrest an undocumented immigrant? A federal jury will decide

The trial is the latest flashpoint in President Donald Trump 's sweeping immigration crackdown. The administration has branded her an activist judge. Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, a fierce Trump loyalist running for Wisconsin governor next year, urged authorities to “lock her up” in a tweet Tuesday.