Judicial Corruption and Misdirection

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It wasn’t easy tracking down this eye-popping story, which combined all the elements of the immigration debate— yet corporate media still ignored it. The Albuquerque Journal ran the astonishing article last week below the bland, uninformative headline, “Doña Ana County judge resigns after feds arrest man at home.” It was an all-American story about a small-town judge, a quiet, well-kept house, a nice, peaceful neighborhood— but while the judge’s wife was in the kitchen cooking dinner, a designated terrorist was out back polishing a suppressed AR-15.

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On March 3rd, Las Cruces Magistrate Judge Jose Cano (D) quietly resigned from the bench after three re-elections since 2011. On the same day, prosecutors were down the street in federal district court arguing that a recent arrestee, a Venezuelan national named Christhian Lopez-Ortega, 23, was a Tren de Aragua gang member and a flight risk.

The two men’s connection defies belief.

Christhian was first caught crossing the border at Eagle Pass in December, 2023, but was freed three days later— due to overcrowding. This year, three days before Judge Cano tendered his letter of resignation, the El Paso Homeland Security Office, responding to an anonymous tip, raided the judge’s Las Cruces home and found the gang member living in the judge’s guest cottage, or what the locals call a casita.

Homeland Security officers nabbed Lopez-Ortega with a bunch of guns (a felony), and the family closed ranks, claiming the guns were owned by the Judge’s daughter, April. The government’s April 8th motion for reconsideration drily reported, “The Defendant admitted that he knew it was illegal for him to possess firearms.”

According to federal filings, Judge Cano’s liberal wife Nancy came upon the young man working construction and hired him to replace a glass door and do a couple odd jobs around the house. After Lopez-Ortega was evicted from his apartment, Nancy invited him to live with the family, and began driving him to his immigration appointments and his construction gigs.

No good reason for inviting a 23-year-old gang member into the family appears in any of the reports, leaving ample space for sordid speculation. Generously, the affluent middle-aged mom may have thought she just was helping “reform” the career gangster.

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Investigators discovered some clues in Lopez-Ortega’s text messages. He called Nancy his “patrona,” which I believe is Venezuelan for “sugar momma.” One unidentified amigo asked Lopez-Ortega to get him “two grenades.” Another texted him a grisly murder scene photo showing decapitated victims with their hands cut off, a gruesome photo attached in full to Homeland’s motion, but which I will not reproduce here in close-up.

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Troublingly, the local federal Magistrate judge overruled Lopez-Ortega’s bond, rebuffing federal prosecutors and saying something like, “I’m sure he’s okay if he’s living with Judge Cano.” The federal judge even tried to remit the gang member back into Nancy Cano’s custody.

That prompted the government’s attorneys to file an emergency motion for reconsideration, which has not yet been set for hearing.


🔥 This story involves two judges. The first, a sitting state judge embroiled in what appears at minimum to be a non-traditional relationship with a member of a designated terrorist organization, an illegal, gang-tattooed alien the Cano family shared everything with including their firearms, and a second local federal judge who in open court said he would release the man because he was friends with the first judge.

If this story came from Venezuela, it would surprise no one. But it’s from New Mexico.

This troubling tale has created a certain amount of buzz in local and social media, percolating just below corporate media’s veneered surface. If we had a functioning media, which we obviously do not, they would tell us how historically, the corruption of local judiciary is one of the first and most critical steps that cartel-style organizations take when consolidating soft territorial control.

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Cartels are cagey, sly, and experienced. They don’t roll into a new area in hummers holding assault rifles. They quietly assimilate and get a read on the local judicial and law enforcement arena. Then they deploy a carrot and stick approach. They offer sweet bribes, called “plata” (silver), sometimes cloaked as gifts or brokered with third parties. And, for judges who don’t take bribes, they offer quiet threats, called “plomo” (lead): you don’t want to deny bail on a TdA hermano.

Plata or plomo.
Silver or lead.

The cartels realize that the judicial bench is the choke point. There are only a handful of judges in each locale, so controlling even one through plato or plomo makes a measurable difference. Control the judiciary, and you effectively control law enforcement. It’s not just a cartel thing, it’s an organized crime tactic. You can find similar examples in the 1980’s mafia and the 1930’s Chicago mobsters.

The cartels are just the tactic’s most recent incarnation.





 
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Kyle

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Ex-New Mexico judge, wife arrested for allegedly harboring illegal Tren de Aragua member

Former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were taken into custody Thursday after federal agents raided their Las Cruces home.

The two face charges of evidence tampering amid allegations they harbored Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, an alleged illegal alien who is also believed to be a member of Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ex-new-m...gedly-harboring-illegal-tren-de-aragua-member


 
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WOKE Judge ARRESTED By ICE After Supreme Court BANS Him For Harboring Illegal Immigrant Gang Member!​



 
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Of course it should come as no surprise that CNN and MSDNC are not covering this in the least. Not even to mention on their websites front page.
 
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Sneakers

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I'm amazed that people are more than willing to trash their lives, jobs, status and finances to harbor and protect these murderous illegal dirtbags who contribute nothing to anyone's lives.

What is their reasoning, their justification for doing so?
 
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GURPS

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What is their reasoning, their justification for doing so?

1. America is an Elitist Country that needs to be taken down a few notches and can afford to let these people in
2. You are a Scumbag Nativist if you do not want unchecked immigration
3. You are a racist if you do not want unchecked immigration
4. The Gov has PLENTY of money to pay for brown people to live here. TAX The Rich - Elon needs to PAY MORE

... and so on
 

WingsOfGold

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I'm amazed that people are more than willing to trash their lives, jobs, status and finances to harbor and protect these murderous illegal dirtbags who contribute nothing to anyone's lives.

What is their reasoning, their justification for doing so?
Judging by the 500 lb judge there are "cuck" deals in there.
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MSNBC FREAKS OUT Over FBI ARRESTING WOKE Judge For OBSTRUCTING Illegal Immigrant ICE Arrest In Court​



 

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Kash Patel ARRESTS Liberal Judge Aiding ILLEGAL Immigrant, FBI ARRESTS Democrat Harboring TERRORIST​


 
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WOKE DA Demands Prosecutors HAND OUT Plea Deals BASED OFF RACE To Fight Systemic Racism!​


 

Sneakers

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I was under the impression that judges made decisions based on the law of the land, not personal opinions and feelings. That would make them 'judgey', not 'judges'. Guess I was wrong.
 
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GURPS

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The immigration judge who issued the final deportation order that included a “withholding of removal” for Abrego Kilmar Garcia, the illegal immigrant and alleged member of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) who was deported last month by the Trump administration, previously volunteered to serve as the judge for a mock court session meant to train lawyers to defend illegal immigrants.

U.S. Immigration Judge David M. Jones was listed by the Maryland Pro Bono Resource Center, an organization partnered with the Maryland State Bar Association, on an event page for its “Representing Asylum Seekers Model Hearing” event held on February 20, 2020.

According to a description still available on the organization’s website, “the PM session will include a presentation from the Court and a series of model hearings from Assistant Chief Immigration judge David M. Jones.”

The website further explains that the training, including model sessions featuring Jones, was open for “pro bono attorneys, nonprofit staff, Spanish-speaking law students,” and those willing to serve as actors during the mock trial.

In exchange for their participation, attorneys who attended agreed to “accept at least one asylum pro bono case from a Maryland Immigrant Legal Assistant Project (MILAP) Partner within one year of training,” or else “attend an interview and/or hearing in either the Arlington Asylum Office and/or Baltimore Immigration Court.”

Of note, Jones was actively adjudicating immigration court cases from the Baltimore court at the time he participated in this event.




 

GURPS

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☕️ IT BEGINS ☙ Saturday, April 26, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠



🔥 First, let’s consider what all this means. I’ll start with my point of view: Both Dugan and Cano must be prosecuted aggressively — not just for individual accountability, but to send a clear signal that domestic sabotage of immigration enforcement is criminal, not heroic. Otherwise, the rule of law, already bleeding out, will die on the operating table.

The two cases are remarkably similar. Behold:

  • Sitting judges,
  • Engaging in criminal acts,
  • To protect illegal alien defendants involved in violent crime and/or cartel activity,
  • Directly interfering with federal law enforcement.
The juxtaposition of the two eerily similar cases involving two judges in two different states arrested on the same day paints a picture. It’s a dystopian picture of decentralized, ideological sabotage of immigration enforcement inside the judiciary itself. Judges are no longer passively ignoring federal law through non-cooperation but actively working against it through affirmative criminal acts of their own.

It’s an insurrection from behind the bench.

Aggressive prosecution isn’t optional. It’s mandatory. If we wish to retain the ‘rule of law,’ that is.

🔥 The political fallout was explosive. Corporate media, Democrats, and BlueSky’s blue-checks were apoplectic, practically foaming at the mouth. In situ, silver-haired boomer protestors, supported by canes and walkers, popped up outside Dugan’s courthouse:

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Progressive commenters saw the arrests as nothing less than an assault on the judiciary:

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Speaking of Representative Raskin, the former chair of the J6 committee and one of the House impeachment prosecutors during Trump 1.0 called the arrests a “dangerous new front” in Trump’s war against judges:

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Democrat media consultant David Doak, apparently having already forgotten four years of enthusiastic lawfare against the former president, and the rule of turnabout being fair play, announced the United States is now officially a police state:

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But some progressive legal experts were slightly more cautious. MSNBC’s legal expert, for example, wondered whether this was the “best way to handle” what are admittedly bad-looking facts for the judge. He said, “It doesn't look great for the judge, no matter how you slice it. But was this kind of escalatory action the best course of action, to actually go and arrest her, take her to court, and federally charge her? That's a big step.”

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CLIP: progressive legal expert Ken Dilanian says at first blush, it looks bad (0:36).

In short, MSNBC’s expert Dilania called for ‘prosecutorial restraint.’ In other words, maybe judges should be above the law after all, if they’re on our team.

We tried to warn them. But they couldn’t conceive of Trump winning the election.
 
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