Fox News guest host Joey Jones pushed back hard against co-host and Democrat strategist Jessica Tarlov on Friday during an episode of “The Five,” after Tarlov criticized the public arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan.
Dugan was arrested by FBI agents following an investigation into allegations that she helped hide a migrant wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed Dugan’s arrest on Friday. Federal authorities allege that Dugan improperly aided the individual, who was facing charges related to violence.
MORE NEWS: Senator Mike Lee Explains How the MAGA Agenda Can Be Passed in Congress [WATCH]
During the panel discussion, Tarlov suggested that the Trump administration turned the judge’s arrest into “a show” and said authorities did not “need to” arrest her so publicly.
Jones responded sharply to her remarks.
“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.
This Could Be the Most Important Video Gun Owners Watch All Year
Jones went further, criticizing what he described as broader efforts to minimize the threat posed by violent individuals with ties to gangs.
“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 —” he said.
Tarlov interjected, claiming the photos Jones referenced were “fake.”
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, has strategically censored her partner’s left hand in the photo she uploaded on her TikTok to promote her GoFundMe. @nayibbukele, can you release the full resolution photos from the photoshoot meeting he had with… pic.twitter.com/6KP3GsjMIV
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 18, 2025
MORE NEWS: NFL’s Chicago Bears Are Considering Leing Illinois If Politicians Keep It Up [WATCH]
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.
Jones referenced the murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was found murdered on her university campus in Athens, Georgia, in February 2024.
CloseIllegal migrant Jose Ibarra, originally from Venezuela, was found guilty in November 2024 on multiple charges, including malice murder, felony murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggrated assault with intent to rape, aggrated battery, obstructing a 911 call, tampering with evidence, and being a peeping tom.
In January, just hours after President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, Senate lawmakers passed the Laken Riley Act, requiring federal authorities to detain illegal migrants who he committed theft-related crimes in the United States.
“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 added.
MORE NEWS: Brown University Completely Outsmarted by Homeless Man Who Cracked the Case Wide Open [WATCH]
As the conversation continued, Tarlov pointed out that “conservative juggernauts like Antonin Scalia he spoken about the fact that people who are undocumented deserve due process.” Jones responded by highlighting the real-world consequences of illegal immigration.
“They can he 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.”
The debate highlighted ongoing divisions over immigration enforcement and public safety, with panelists offering sharply different perspectives on the legal and political implications of the judge’s arrest and broader immigration policies.