Radical Democrat lets truth slip about abortion in effort to protect illegal alien accused of homicide

A radical Democrat congresswoman who staunchly advocates for so-called "abortion rights" may have accidentally undermined them when she attempted to run interference for a recently deported immigrant accused of heinous crimes.

There seems to be no form of abortion Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) doesn't like. She has called abortion "health care" and a "human right," vowed "to protect and expand" so-called "reproductive care" under Trump's second term, and even admitted that she has had at least one abortion herself.

'Interesting that it's a baby when you want to dunk on ICE but it's just a clump of cells when you want to kill it.'

Because of her long-standing history of defending abortion, Jayapal surprised many when she lamented the recent loss of another woman's unborn "baby."

"A pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care," Jayapal wrote on social media on Tuesday, perhaps not realizing that babies are persons who cannot legally be killed.

"If true, this is very sad. Tragic even. And the fact that it’s sad is clear evidence that your position on abortion is both inhumane and barbaric," Not the Bee shot back in the comments.

"Interesting that it's a baby when you want to dunk on ICE but it's just a clump of cells when you want to kill it," added Kangmin Lee, a popular Christian influencer with nearly 160,000 followers.

"Baby. Thanks for admitting it," quipped LifeNews.com.

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In her social media post, Jayapal also shared an article from the Nashville Banner about the apparent stillborn child and his mother, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, a native of Guatemala who reportedly stole into the U.S. in 2018.

In the article, Monterroso-Lemus painted such a harrowing tale of her experiences in ICE custody that independent journalist Andy Ngo characterized her allegations as "cinematic."

Monterroso-Lemus claimed she was:

forced to sleep on the floor in an Alabama facility;
offered food infested with cockroaches;
repeatedly denied medical care after she expressed concerns about her unborn child and instead had only her blood pressure and urine sample tested; and
ignored for three days after the child died in her womb.

"I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach, inside my stomach for three days, dead," she said, according to the Banner.

"I told them to just send me back to Guatemala because I was pregnant and wasn’t getting the medical attention I needed," she added.

"There’s so much pressure in jail. I started suffering from insomnia, from anxiety. Then I felt like I was having a stroke, and they still didn’t give me a medical exam," she continued.

Monterroso-Lemus also claimed that overly vigilant guards kept her "shackled" to a bed while she delivered the stillborn baby boy. "When I was delivering my baby, they didn’t even give me a little privacy," she said. "One time, they even shackled my feet because they thought I might escape. Like I was some kind of criminal. I told them, 'What you’re doing to me isn’t right.'"

According to the report, Monterroso-Lemus gave birth at Ochsner LSU Health – Monroe Medical Center in Louisiana on April 29. She was then deported back to Guatemala on May 9.

"This is absolutely disgusting and we should all be outraged," Jayapal fumed in her social media post on Tuesday.

Monterroso-Lemus 'has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide.'

Because Jayapal's tweet drew such attention to Monterroso-Lemus' case, the Department of Homeland Security issued a press release directly disputing most, if not all, of Monterroso-Lemus' claims.

According to DHS, Monterroso-Lemus:

"had a bed in her cell" and was never forced to sleep on the floor;
received "appropriate dietician cleared menus" every day in keeping with the standards of all ICE detainees in New Orleans;
received extensive prenatal and other medical care, including a fetal doppler ultrasound, an "OB-GYN visit, dental care, and medication." She was also taken to a hospital and seen by "multiple nurses"; and
was given "immediate medical assistance" on April 29, when she reported distress and was taken to the hospital.

DHS also insists it has no record that Monterroso-Lemus ever filed a grievance about alleged "mistreatment and mocking from guards."

In a statement to Blaze News, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed: "This reporting is absolutely FALSE. Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus had FULL medical, prenatal care. We have documentation to show it."

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What's more, Monterroso-Lemus has been accused of mistreating others — severely.

In her statement to Blaze News, McLaughlin claimed that "Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, 37, is a citizen of Guatemala who has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide."

The DHS press release clarified that Monterroso-Lemus was "arrested twice for child abuse/neglect with the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office" and that she is wanted for homicide in Guatemala.

"FACT CHECK: ICE Provided Full Medical Care to Guatemalan Illegal Alien with History of Child Abuse and Wanted for Homicide," the press release headline reiterated.

Monterroso-Lemus has six other children.

The father of her stillborn child, Gary Bivens, still appears to stand by his fiancée. He has pledged to relocate to Guatemala and initiated a GoFundMe account to help with "funds for medical treatment and transportation expenses."

"It's unbelievable. It's disgusting. I'm beside myself, I really am," he said, according to the Banner. "I'm ashamed to even call myself an American citizen. With what is going on in these facilities? ... It's costing people’s lives. It's breaking families apart. It's so inhumane. ... It's un-American."

"I'll sell the house and everything I got, and I'm coming down to Guatemala," Bivens added. "That's my intention ... because I don't even want to be here anymore. ... I lost all respect for every bit and piece of this country.”

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Trump admin changes the game, sues federal judges in Maryland for automatically blocking deportations

President Donald Trump's opponents failed to stop him at the ballot box, so now they are attempting to neutralize his presidency in the courts.

U.S. district court judges have proven more than willing to help out in this regard, slapping the government with more nationwide injunctions in the first 100 days of Trump's second term than were entered throughout the whole of the 20th century.

As of Wednesday, the New York Times indicated that 199 or more of the court rulings against the president's executive actions so far this year have at least temporarily halted the Trump administration's initiatives.

While the U.S. Supreme Court has intervened in a number of cases to reaffirm the president's Article II powers and his exercise thereof, it's abundantly clear that the Trump administration is tiring of what White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has repeatedly called a "judicial coup."

The Department of Justice turned the tables on Wednesday, filing a lawsuit against the U.S. District Court of Maryland and all 16 of its judges — including its 10 authorized judges, all but one of whom were appointed by former Presidents Joe Biden or Barack Obama.

The lawsuit takes aim at an order handed down last month that automatically blocks the deportation of illegal aliens in the state whose detention is challenged by immigration attorneys.

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If a petition for writ of habeas corpus is filed on behalf of an illegal alien detainee in or said to be in the District of Maryland, the Trump administration is automatically enjoined and restrained from removing the alien from the country or altering the alien's legal status for at least two days.

The district court's Chief Judge George Russell III, an Obama appointee, claimed that the May 28 amended standing order was necessary because the recent flood of illegal alien detention and removal challenges "that have been filed after normal court hours and on weekends and holidays has created scheduling difficulties and resulted in hurried and frustrating hearings."

Chad Mizelle, DOJ chief of staff, stressed that "this obviously illegal practice cannot stand. To stop it, the Department of Justice has no choice but to sue the Maryland federal district court — and its judges — to ensure that they stop overstepping their authority in this critical area."

Lawyers for the government noted in the lawsuit that the district court's automatic injunction does "precisely what the Supreme Court has forbidden: make equitable relief a 'matter of right' in the District of Maryland."

'This pattern of judicial overreach undermines the democratic process and cannot be allowed to stand.'

"Defendants' automatic injunction issues whether or not the alien needs or seeks emergency relief, whether or not the court has jurisdiction over the alien's claims, and no matter how frivolous the alien's claims may be," said the lawsuit.

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The complaint notes further that the standing orders:

"violate congressional limits on district courts' jurisdiction over immigration matters";
"disregard the procedural and substantive requirements for issuing what amounts to a local rule";
"are fundamentally inconsistent with the judicial role to resolve only concrete and discrete 'cases' and 'controversies'";
rob Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations of any opportunity to contest the alien's assertion of being "located in the District of Maryland" at the time of a habeas filing; and
"can also adversely impact the operational planning necessary to coordinate a removal, especially a removal of an alien to a country that is recalcitrant about accepting the alien."

The DOJ characterized the Maryland District Court's automatic injunctions as "a particularly egregious example of judicial overreach interfering with Executive Branch prerogatives — and thus undermining the democratic process."

"President Trump's executive authority has been undermined since the first hours of his presidency by an endless barrage of injunctions designed to halt his agenda," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. "The American people elected President Trump to carry out his policy agenda: this pattern of judicial overreach undermines the democratic process and cannot be allowed to stand."

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'Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide': Florida will have 'Alligator Alcatraz' for illegal aliens up and running in days

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Trump administration could restart deportations of illegal aliens to countries not their own. While this decision will speed up the mass deportation process, there remains a need for detention facilities.

To help satisfy this need, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) tasked state leaders with identifying places for a new facility. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier evidently had a good spot in mind.

Last week, Uthmeier made a public pitch in favor of "Alligator Alcatraz" — "an old, virtually abandoned airport facility" in the Everglades that could serve as "the one-stop shop to carry out President Trump's mass deportation agenda."

The state attorney general noted that the 39-square-mile area, which "is completely surrounded by the Everglades," presents an "efficient, low-cost opportunity to build a temporary detention facility because you don't need to invest that much in the perimeter. People get out and there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons — nowhere to go, nowhere to hide."

Uthmeier confirmed Monday that Alligator Alcatraz is a go.

The Department of Homeland Security told Blaze News that the Florida Division of Emergency Management will build a facility on the location that will house up to 5,000 beds for illegal aliens.

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Florida law enforcement officers who capture under the 287(G) program — a program delegating specific immigration enforcement authority to state and local officers under the Immigration and Nationality Act — can dump detainees off at Alligator Alcatraz. ICE will similarly be able to transfer aliens to the Florida facility under 287(g) authority.

The DHS anticipates that the facility will be functional in a matter of days, initially with 500 to 1,000 beds, but ultimately 5,000 beds by early July, following expansions in several 500-bed increments.

Authorities might ultimately build hardened structures on the site, but for the time being, Alligator Alcatraz will largely be a tented destination.

While illegal aliens sweat it out in the soft-sided structures, Florida Division of Emergency Management workers will be housed in old Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers that have apparently been renovated.

'I'm proud to help support President Trump and Secretary Noem in their mission to fix our illegal immigration problem once and for all.'

"Under President Trump’s leadership, we are working at turbo speed on cost-effective and innovative ways to deliver on the American people's mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to Blaze News. "We will expand facilities and bed space in just days, thanks to our partnership with Florida."

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Noem noted further that the new facilities "will in large part be funded by FEMA's Shelter and Services Program, which the Biden Administration used as a piggy bank to spend hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars to house illegal aliens, including at the Roosevelt Hotel that served as a Tren de Aragua base of operations that was used to shelter Laken Riley’s killer."

According to the DHS, the approximate cost of running the facility will be $245 per bed per day and an annual cost of $450 million. Florida will initially foot the bill but later receive reimbursement from FEMA, which has roughly $625 million in Shelter and Services Program funds available for this effort.

"I'm proud to help support President Trump and Secretary Noem in their mission to fix our illegal immigration problem once and for all," stated Uthmeier. "Alligator Alcatraz and other Florida facilities will do just that."

Hundreds of protesters traveled to the site of the future detention facility on Sunday to protest its construction, reported WGCU-TV. Their concerns largely appeared to be tied up with the potential environmental impact of the facility on supposedly "sacred" land.

Illegal immigrant advocates have similarly criticized the proposed facility albeit for difference reasons.

For instance, Mark Fleming, the associate director of federal litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center, told the New York Times that the move amounted to an "independent, unaccountable detention system."

"The fact that the administration and its allies would even consider such a huge temporary facility," said Fleming, "on such a short timeline, with no obvious plan for how to adequately staff medical and other necessary services, in the middle of the Florida summer heat is demonstrative of their callous disregard for the health and safety of the human beings they intend to imprison there."

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Illegal alien accused of threatening to slit throat of Bondi-appointed US attorney

A U.S. attorney in New York learned firsthand the danger that criminal illegal aliens pose to the community after he was chased and threatened with a knife in downtown Albany earlier this week.

Just before 10 p.m. on Tuesday, John Sarcone, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, had just left his office and was strolling by a Hilton Hotel, enjoying a cigar, when he suddenly spotted a man behaving suspiciously.

"I got my eye on him, then I turn back and I’m in front of the Hilton, and I’m just standing there, and I’m looking at him ... and he then starts yelling at me in his language that I don’t understand," Sarcone later said, according to the Times-Union.

The man then reportedly approached Sarcone, pulled a knife, and lunged in his direction.

'We take these things seriously — whether you’re the US attorney for the Northern District or your name’s John Smith and you live on Morton Avenue.'

Sarcone stepped into the hotel lobby for safety and called Sheriff Craig Apple of Albany County but then went back outdoors to keep an eye on the man. The situation then apparently escalated.

"I didn’t want him to get away, and I yelled out at him," Sarcone recalled. "He turns around, and he starts yelling again ... and then he pulls the knife out, and then there’s this (gesture) across his throat thing, like he’s going to slit my throat, and then comes at me again, and I ran back towards the hotel, and then he stopped and then turned around."

Police quickly arrived on the scene and apprehended the suspect, identified as 40-year-old Saul Morales-Garcia. Sheriff Apple confirmed that Morales-Garcia, a Salvadoran national, is in the U.S. illegally, WNYT reported.

Sarcone was not injured in the incident, but at a hearing on Wednesday, prosecutors demonstrated that they are not playing games. Morales-Garcia has been charged with second-degree attempted murder, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and second-degree menacing. The defendant has another court appearance scheduled for next week.

"It’s important that everybody understands that we take these things seriously – whether you’re the U.S. attorney for the Northern District or your name’s John Smith and you live on Morton Avenue," District Attorney Lee Kindlon said outside the courthouse.

Morales-Garcia reportedly told investigators he did not know Sarcone was a federal official. Public defender Vincenzo Sofia argued in court that the evidence did not warrant an attempted murder charge and requested release under probationary supervision, but the judge ordered the defendant held without bail.

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The defendant has a lengthy rap sheet both in America and abroad. Morales-Garcia has a felony conviction in El Salvador and has been deported from the U.S. on at least one occasion, in 2010. When he re-entered the U.S. illegally again is unclear.

According to multiple reports, he also has a "criminal record" in at least three states and an active warrant for his arrest.

In April 2022, Morales-Garcia was convicted of a DUI and driving without a license in Monroe County, Georgia. A month later, he apparently failed to appear in court, prompting a bench warrant, but the bench warrant is tied to the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office. Whether the two Georgia incidents are related is unclear, the Times-Union reported.

'Kathy Hochul puts illegals first and New Yorkers last.'

In December 2023, Morales-Garcia was arrested by federal Park Police officers in Virginia and charged with disorderly conduct, engaging in a physically threatening act likely to inflict injury, possessing an open container of alcohol, and being intoxicated in public. Five months later, he was charged with retail theft in a city just outside Philadelphia.

The Times-Union reported that the outcomes of those cases are currently unknown.

ICE agents were reportedly at the courthouse on Wednesday, when Morales-Garcia and at least one other illegal alien were scheduled to appear. It is unclear whether the agents interacted with Morales-Garcia.

The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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At least one New York federal lawmaker is speaking out about the alarming incident.

"In Kathy Hochul’s New York, nobody is safe, not even President Trump’s U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of NY John A. Sarcone III, who was 'confronted and chased' by an illegal alien armed with a knife in Albany last night, the Times Union reported," Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) posted to X on Wednesday.

"Three separate times, Hochul signed executive orders to protect violent illegal aliens from deportation. Kathy Hochul puts illegals first and New Yorkers last. We desperately need a governor who puts New Yorkers first and restores law and order to our streets."

In response to a request for comment, Hochul sent Blaze News what appears to be a generic email, promising "to rebuild our communities and continue to move our great state forward."

"I promise to do everything I can, every single day, to create a stronger, safer future for you, our families, and our communities and to make government a force for good once again."

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed Sarcone to the U.S. attorney position back in March. Sarcone previously served on President Donald Trump's campaign legal team in 2016.

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Judge accused of helping illegal alien evade ICE says she didn't think 'avoid ICE' meant anything illegal

Massachusetts District Judge Shelley Joseph denied wanting to help an illegal alien evade federal detention by helping him exit a courtroom through a back door.

In 2018, Joseph was presiding over a drug possession hearing for Jose Medina-Perez, a man from the Dominican Republic who had already been deported from the U.S. in 2003 and 2007.

During the hearing, the judge asked for the official recording of the proceeding to be turned off while she had a discussion with the defense attorney, allegedly to talk about how to help the illegal immigrant evade ICE agents. This week, the defense attorney testified as to what was said during the unrecorded period.

'It sends a dangerous message that political activism is more important than the rule of law.'

Attorney David Jellinek testified on Monday that during a 52-second off-the-record sidebar conversation, he told Judge Joseph he wanted to get his client, the illegal alien, out of the courthouse without interacting with ICE, the Boston Herald reported.

The attorney said he was aware of a back door used by court officers for criminal defendants and told the judge he would use it with her permission. Jellinek said, according to the Boston Herald, that he knew he was "on the edge" of ethical and legal standards, but said he did not break the law.

In a report from CBS Boston, the transcript of the hearing revealed that Jellinek had another reason for wanting to help his client evade ICE.

Jellinek reportedly stated that he thought ICE was looking for the wrong man and wanted time to investigate and prove that fact.

When Judge Joseph was asked if she thought her discussion with Jellinek meant he wanted to "go out the back door," Joseph replied, "Oh, God no."

Joseph was also asked in the CBS Boston report whether she knew the words "avoid ICE" meant to avoid federal authorities in "any improper way," to which she replied no.

Joseph also said she would "absolutely not" have been a party to anything illegal like that, either.

According to the Boston Herald, Joseph could face devastating punishments.

Special counsel Judith Fabricant from the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended Judge Joseph be indefinitely suspended and stripped of her $207,855 salary for an alleged failure to uphold the standards of a judge.

The commission cannot remove a judge, but Fabricant suggested that a referral to lawmakers for Joseph's removal should be made.

Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph (C) cries after leaving federal court in Boston on April 25, 2019. Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Paul Craney of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance told Blaze News that Judge Joseph's actions represent a troubling breakdown of public trust in the judicial system.

"When a sitting judge allegedly aids a twice-deported criminal in evading federal law enforcement, then attempts to cover it up by disabling a courtroom recorder, it sends a dangerous message that political activism is more important than the rule of law," Craney said.

Craney added that accountability on the bench "must be restored" and that the hearing was "long overdue."

The case will likely not be settled until at least early August, however, as a hearing officer said the parties involved have until July 3 to file briefs and then until July 10 to respond to them.

A written report and recommendation for the CJC comes 30 days after that, which would be around August 10.

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