Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-New Jersey, has announced her pregnancy, despite potentially facing a lengthy prison sentence.
The lawmaker was indicted by a grand jury for her involvement in a May 2025 incident involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. She was seen on video allegedly assaulting one of the officers at the ICE facility, Delaney Hall, during a demonstration, and she is now facing charges for forcibly assaulting, impeding, intimidating, and interfering with ICE and Homeland Security Investigators.
Despite her attempts to get the charges dropped, the process is still moving forward. And apparently, so are her plans to have a child.
Look:
People might find it crazy that even though I’m facing 17 years in prison, I made the decision to get pregnant. But, at the end of the day, this is something I couldn’t let be consumed by this administration.
I refuse to let them take my joy or my future. pic.twitter.com/Tkxwanucbi
— Rep. LaMonica McIver (@RepLaMonica) September 29, 2026
“People might find it crazy that even though I’m facing 17 years in prison, I made the decision to get pregnant. But, at the end of the day, this is something I couldn’t let be consumed by this administration. I refuse to let them take my joy or my future,” she wrote in a Tuesday post.
X users weighed in on her life plan, including some who accused the lawmaker of getting pregnant in the hopes of avoiding punishment:
You put your hands on law enforcement agents.
No one is taking your joy.
You surrendered it.
— The🎃FOO (@PolitiBunny) September 29, 2026
I don’t know about joy, but your future doesn’t look too great from where we are sitting
— Phoenix 🇺🇸 (@Phoenix2A_1980s) September 29, 2026
This was done out of pity and trying to use it as how can you separate a mom from her child
— JBOBJ (@JoeyFromWorc) September 30, 2026
You made the decision to get knocked up thinking it would insulate you from the consequences of assaulting a federal officer.
It won’t.
Around 600 women give birth in prison every year. https://t.co/br7ZwsKkvx
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) September 29, 2026
This happens all the time with female criminals. They always get pregnant before prison on purpose so their first two years of prison time are a cake walk. https://t.co/mXPrO6qg3x
— DAKKADAKKA (@DAKKADAKKA1) September 29, 2026
“I refuse to let them take my joy or my future”
You literally impeded and attacked federal officers, nobody forced you to go there you knew what you were doing https://t.co/y9tQ74vA2M
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) September 30, 2026
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