Analilia Mejia, a congressional candidate in New Jersey’s 11th District, has a record of social media posts and public statements criticizing police and Israel, defending socialism, and comparing migrant detention centers to concentration camps.
Mejia is seeking to represent New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District. Kamala Harris won the district by less than ten points in the 2024 presidential election, and it is one of the most highly educated and wealthiest districts in New Jersey.
Before launching her congressional bid, Mejia served as a staff member for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has since endorsed her campaign. She has also been backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
A review of Mejia’s social media posts shows a series of statements promoting her views on socialism and government programs. In 2016, she wrote that “Jesus was likely a Democratic Socialist.” In 2019, Mejia called taxpayer-funded programs and essential services — including police and fire departments, every branch of the U.S. military, and toilets — examples of socialism.
That same year, Mejia said it was a “fact” that migrant detention centers were akin to concentration camps. Mejia has pushed to “abolish ICE” and demanded justice for Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman shot by an ICE officer, who Department of Homeland Security officials say acted in self-defense after Good “weaponized” her Honda and struck the agent with the vehicle.
In 2020, following the death of George Floyd, Mejia claimed that she understood the “desire for destruction” during protests and the “reflex to fear and distrust the police.” In a separate post, she stated, “I dreamt I was stopped by the police and although I had done nothing, I feared this officer. Our society is really broke into people who understand my nightmare.” In 2023, Mejia again criticized policing in the United States, declaring that there is “RAMPANT Anti blackness that dominates this nation” and accusing police of “upholding this INVISIBLE PLANTATION.”