Federal authorities in California arrested an illegal alien from Mexico after she allegedly faked a kidnapping by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or “bounty hunters” working for ICE. Prosecutors allege the woman carried out the scam to raise money on social media and discredit ICE and other federal law enforcement agents.
In June, media outlets ran with a story about a “South Los Angeles mother of three” who claimed to have been kidnapped by “possible federal agents” and taken to the Mexican border. Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon claimed to have been held by these agents and abused until she agreed to self-deport. The allegation came after weeks of riots and attacks on federal law enforcement officers attempting to arrest criminal aliens in the Los Angeles
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