Analilia Mejia Wins in NJ-11, Becomes First Latina to Represent the District

VoM News Desk | April 17, 2026 | 08:45 AM IST | Breaking News, World | Follow on Google News

Since the beginning of December 2025, Make the Road Action members have engaged more than 169,731 voters across NJ-11 to help deliver a major victory for Mejia.

(BLOOMFIELD, NJ) – In a historic victory, Analilia Mejia wins in New Jersey’s 11th congressional district, becoming the first Latina to represent the district. Against the backdrop of masked ICE agents’ brutal attacks on immigrants and U.S. citizens alike, Mejia ran on an unabashedly pro-immigrant platform. The daughter of immigrants from Colombia and the Dominican Republic, Mejia drew attention for conducting regular ICE watch trainings, and for joining grassroots efforts to aid detained immigrants at Delaney Hall, the largest ICE detention center on the East Coast. 

Make the Road Action helped deliver a decisive win for Mejia. Since December 2025, Make the Road Action members have engaged thousands of voters, making 151,571 phone calls and knocking on 18,160 doors. Throughout this massive outreach effort spanning four months, voters expressed strong support for Mejia’s platform: abolish ICE, healthcare for all, billionaire and corporate accountability, affordable housing, and lower utility and grocery prices.

Nedia Morsy, Director of Make the Road Action New Jersey, issued the following statement on behalf of the organization’s nearly 7,000 members:

“Tonight, we are sending one of our own to Congress. Together, we have done the steady work of organizing to grow a movement that delivers for all of us. With Analilia, we not only forcefully called the question of whether or not we should spend billions on a masked paramilitary that separates our families while we cut healthcare funding but we also articulated a vision of what a country that welcomes immigrants can do. That’s the strength, clarity of purpose and muscle that beats back the influence of big money and builds the power needed to shape our future.
Tonight’s victory is more than a testament – it is a call to action to do away with outdated playbooks that favor the billionaire class and power the authoritarianism regime. Progressive power is building every day in New Jersey and across this country. We look forward to ushering in a New Jersey and a country alongside our new Congresswoman where we guarantee the rights and protections of all people including immigrants, strengthen our shared economic and civic life, lifts wages, and counter corporate exploitation.”

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