Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) called Kayla Hamilton, a young woman killed by an illegal immigrant, a “random dead person” during a House Judiciary Committee meeting.
“You take a situation, and then you exploit what has happened to not only that person, but you exploit those families, and you make it a game,” Crockett said during the meeting. “Stop just throwing a random dead person’s name on something for your own political expediency.”
Crockett’s comments were part of a larger discussion surrounding Rep. Russell Fry’s (R-SC) bill called the Kayla Hamilton Act, which mandates that the Health and Human Services Secretary determine whether unaccompanied migrant children pose a danger to themselves or to the community.
“This person was a vibrant soul, had a life, was pursuing a degree, she’s not ‘some random dead person,'” Fry said. He added that the young woman “wasn’t a ‘random dead person,’ she was one of many people who have been victimized by the lawless border problems created by the last administration.”
“You refuse to acknowledge it, and that’s shameful,” he said.
“The tragic murder of Kayla Hamilton was preventable,” Fry said in a statement upon introducing the bill. “The Biden Administration’s policies opened the door to criminal exploitation of our immigration system—and the Kayla Hamilton Act ensures that no future administration can make those same reckless decisions. It’s time we put public safety, accountability, and the protection of American citizens first. This bill makes clear that the integrity of our immigration system can no longer be an afterthought.”
