Fox guest host Joey Jones ripped into co-host and Democrat strategist Jessica Tarlov on Friday during “The Five” after she said that federal authorities didn’t “need to” publicly arrest Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly and improperly aiding an illegal migrant.
On Friday, the U.S. Marshals Service confirmed Dugan’s arrest by FBI agents after authorities launched an investigation, alleging she helped hide a migrant charged with violence from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. While discussing the arrest, Tarlov said that the publicity surrounding Dugan’s arrest was the Trump administration turning it into “a show.” Jones stepped in to counter her argument.
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“Somebody whose actual purpose in this world is to enact justice and sometimes be the sole deciding factor on what justice is. Who sits in front of people and has their entire lives in her hands, and she [Dugan] can’t do something as simple as obey the law herself, and we should just hide it under the rug?” Jones asked.
“Bring her into a room and pat her on the hand for putting a guy back out on the street or trying to hide a guy from the proper authorities who punched someone 30 times and then struck a woman trying to break it up,” Jones added. “With all due respect, this whole argument about these Venezuelan gang members or people who say they aren’t in a gang, but they’ve got MS-13 and code on their knuckles —”
Tarlov then stepped in, claiming the photos Jones referred to were “fake.” Jones, however, continued to call her out.
“You’ve also sat here and argued against using tattoos to say if someone’s a member of MS-13. So anyone who has a tie to MS-13 or the government suspects of it, if you tell me that they deserve due process, I’ll tell you that I know Laken Riley’s dad, and I would go out and kick every one of them out of this country just because of Laken Riley,” Jones said.
“So when Frederica Wilson said something like, ‘More people are getting rolled up because of Laken Riley,’ you’re damn right they are. Because this whole country saw what happened to Laken Riley. And we said, ‘Hell no,’” Jones said.
In January, just hours after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, Senate lawmakers passed the Laken Riley Act, requiring federal immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants in the U.S. who’ve committed theft-related crimes.
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Riley’s case sparked nationwide outrage after the 22-year-old nursing student was found brutally murdered by an illegal migrant on her campus in Athens, Ga., in February 2024. Illegal migrant Jose Ibarra, originally from Venezuela, was found guilty in November 2024 of multiple charges including malice murder, felony murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault with intent to rape, aggravated battery, obstructing a 911 call, tampering with evidence and being a peeping tom.
As Jones continued to push back against Tarlov, the Democrat strategist jumped in to say that “conservative juggernauts like Antonin Scalia have spoken about the fact that people who are undocumented deserve due process.”
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“They can have their intellectual arguments,” Jones said. “I live in the real world where people get hurt. Where my sister gets a head-on collision from a drunk illegal who was brought here by a coyote that the Biden administration was happy letting operate. I live in the real world. I don’t live in New York. I don’t live in D.C. I don’t live by the Supreme Court. I live in northwest Georgia.”
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