Tammy Nobles, the mother of slain Maryland woman Kayla Hamilton, is speaking out against Rep. Jasmine Crockett after the Texas Democrat called her daughter a “random dead person” in a heated debate. Nobles calls the remark nasty and even racist, insisting no crime victim deserves that kind of dismissal.
The controversy erupted during a House Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month on the Kayla Hamilton Act, a bill named after the 20-year-old who was sexually assaulted and strangled in 2022. Her killer, Walter Javier Martinez, was an undocumented teenager from El Salvador and a member of the MS-13 gang.
On Fox & Friends First, Nobles shared her fury. “You just don’t call a victim of a crime just a random dead person,” she said. “No victim should be referred to as a random dead person. What she said was really nasty, and it came across as racist.”
Crockett made the comment while criticizing Republicans for pushing the bill. She argued they were exploiting Hamilton’s tragedy for political gain and ignoring other victims, like those linked to Jeffrey Epstein. “Stop just throwing a random dead person’s name on something for your own political expediency,” Crockett said during the hearing. “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.”
Nobles remembers her daughter as a happy, energetic young woman, and the words hit hard. Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler, who handled the case, echoed her outrage on the same show. “Kayla was important. Her life mattered,” he said. “For Congresswoman Crockett to be so dismissive, so insensitive to a crime victim—any crime victim—it just speaks to the character of who we’re electing from some jurisdictions around this country. ‘Pathetic’ is the best word I have for it.”
The Kayla Hamilton Act aims to fix “dangerous loopholes” in how the federal government handles unaccompanied migrant children, according to Rep. Russell Fry, the Republican who introduced it. The bill would force the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to do more thorough checks on undocumented immigrants, including looking for gang tattoos, running background searches in their home countries, and vetting potential sponsors carefully.
Nobles strongly supports the legislation. She believes it could stop future tragedies like her daughter’s murder, while also protecting migrant children from gangs or bad caregivers. “It’s very important to protect the children,” she said. The bill has sparked intense debate over immigration policy, border security, and how the U.S. treats unaccompanied minors crossing into the country illegally.
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