An illegal alien in Los Angeles is facing federal charges for allegedly staging a hoax ICE ‘kidnapping.’ Authorities say 41-year-old Julia Pelaez Calderon of Mexico claimed ICE agents and bounty hunters grabbed her near a Jack in the Box fast food restaurant in late June, threw her in a van, and then held her in a warehouse to force her to self-deport. Of course, activist ‘journalists’ and their fellow Democrats, like Rep. Norma Torres, ate it up. Authorities say phone records and video of her leaving the scene on the day of the alleged ‘kidnapping’ show she’s lying.
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Remember that woman who Democrats and the media claimed was kidnapped from a parking lot by ICE, shoved into an unmarked car, held in a building, starved, to force her to self-deport???
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 17, 2025
Turns out she staged the entire “kidnapping”
She’s now facing criminal charges for… pic.twitter.com/QG7NrKWkWA
This is SICK. The depravity that these people will go to is astounding.
— Mrs B (@attackdogX) July 17, 2025
Wow. Of course.
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) July 17, 2025
Imagine that.
— Laura Kaye 🇺🇸 (@NonsenseEnd) July 17, 2025
Good! This will become more of a thing to do to get money if she is not charged harshly and sentenced.
— MoSmith (@MoSmithHMC) July 17, 2025
She also used the incident to raise money online.
Commenters sarcastically say they expect the legacy media outlets to apologize and retract their coverage. Good luck with that!
Never fear! I'm sure that @cnn and @MSNBC are all airing this story to clear ICE's name............ Any minute now.....
— Warrior Wolf (@JeffLHughes) July 17, 2025
KTLA will still continue presenting immigration fear porn and reporting every immigration “story” going forward without doing any due diligence
— Serious Law Guy (@Serious_Law_Guy) July 17, 2025
What should happen to journalists who assisted in the hoax?
— James ✝️🇺🇸 (@wjamesawill) July 17, 2025
Pulitzer prizes seems to be the norm.
— Smelvis (@BlueelvisEric) July 17, 2025
‘Journalists’ who reject genuine journalism tend to be rewarded and fall upward.
Posters say this debacle just proves that Democrats need to stop taking what illegal aliens say at face value and stop elevating them over all Americans.
Democrats- do you have any morals or integrity? These are the people you put before the American citizens that pay your salary. You are truly despicable. No one in their right mind should vote for a Democrat!@azdemparty @AZSenateDems@SenateDems @USACongress
— Barbara Jennings (@JesussavetheUSA) July 17, 2025
This is what Democrats do-LIE! They jeopardize the safety, security, law and order of American citizens. Stop voting for these people who do NOTHING for us!
— Barbara Jennings (@JesussavetheUSA) July 17, 2025
Some people are going to vote Democrat no matter what.
As is almost always the case, if these incidents were happening, people wouldn’t have to stage hoaxes. Posters say Calderon is the female, illegal alien version of Jussie Smollett.
Another Jussie Smollett!
— Wade Gibson (@WadeGibson01) July 17, 2025
Figures!
Oh my!! She and Jesse Smollet must compare notes on their hoaxes. Two of kind.
— windmill🍊🌵🏜🇺🇸 (@StingerOptimus) July 17, 2025
Jussie Smollett 2.0 🙄
— Michelle #AmericaFirst (@MichelleRM68) July 17, 2025
She Jussie Smollett'd this one big time!
— SHANE SHU (@shaneshu) July 17, 2025
The corrections and hoaxes never get as much traffic as the original story unfortunately.
— FLFGuru (@flwronly124) July 17, 2025
‘This is ICE country!’ Yes, this alleged hoax has been spread far and wide by the legacy media. Any corrections will never catch up with it. We’ll be hearing people referencing this ‘kidnapping’ as a fact for years to come. Calderon is charged with conspiracy and making false statements to federal officers. If Calderon is convicted, she’s looking at a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for each charge.
