US Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a shot across the bow earlier this week to those seeking to commit crimes against American women. In a statement, the head of the Justice Department asserted: “We will protect women in prison. We will protect women in sports. We will protect women throughout this country.”
Leaving no room for confusion, Ms. Bondi elaborated on two incidents in Maine that have raised the hackles of the Trump administration. The first involves the state suing the Trump administration over removing federal funding after permitting a trans athlete to participate in high school girls’ athletic competitions.
The second dispute is over women who are incarcerated. “[W]e pulled all non-essential funding from the Department of Corrections in Maine because they were allowing a man in a woman’s prison,” Bondi said, speaking from the White House lawn to Fox News. She continued: “[T]hey were allowing a man in a woman's prison, a giant six foot one, two hundred- and forty-five-pound guy who committed a double murder with a knife, stabbed his parents to death and the family dog. And he identified as a woman. So, they were letting him be housed in a female prison.”
Bondi appeared incensed that female inmates were subjected to such a potential threat. It is estimated that more than $1.5 million in federal funds are slated to be pulled from the state’s Department of Corrections. In a press release earlier in the week, Maine confirmed that its corrections department received a formal notice from the DOJ on Monday, alerting it that certain grants “are being terminated because they ‘no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities,’” according to The Hill.
The Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), a powerful advocate for women, put out a statement on April 8 that included an interview with former inmate Amie Ichikawa: “We can’t stop at Maine. This is happening coast to coast. Anywhere a woman is in a cage I can guarantee this is happening on both state and federal levels. This is a great start. Let’s keep going. Incarcerated women cannot continue to be fodder in the gender war.”
American Women: Protect, Defend, Prosecute
From the outset, Bondi has been open about her desire to protect American women. In an unflattering review of the new AG, NBC News noted that at her first press conference at the DOJ, she had next to her “a woman whose daughter had been murdered by an illegal immigrant.” This guest was there for a reason, likely highlighting Bondi’s priority of protecting women from the threat of illegal immigrant violence.
In September of 2024, the families of American women and girls who were tragically raped and/or murdered allegedly by illegals testified at an emotional hearing on Capitol Hill. Heartbreaking stories of children as young as 12 and 14, as well as mothers of small children being violently murdered, were recounted in a five-and-a-half-hour hearing. These and other such stories have had a chilling effect on many American Women.
January 16 of this year, the House passed a bill introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to protect women against illegal immigrant crime. H.R. 30: Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act passed by a vote of 274 to 145, with 15 members not voting. Soon thereafter, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) took it to the US Senate, where it sits in the Committee on the Judiciary. The purpose of the bill, as written in its official introduction, is “To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable.”
This is precisely what AG Bondi is after and what many American women would celebrate should this bill become law. Until then, Bondi’s reassurance that the new administration and the DOJ under her direction will not tolerate continued violence against women in all sectors of our society – whether they are behind bars or walking down Main Street – is a step in the right direction in demonstrating to women that the government is concerned about their safety.
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