The grieving mother of a woman murdered by an illegal migrant has blasted Jasmine Crockett after the Texas Congresswoman referred to her daughter as a ‘random dead person’.
Tammy Nobles hit out at the ‘nasty’ remarks about her daughter Kayla Hamilton.
Hamilton, 20, was raped and strangled to death in 2022 by 17-year-old suspected MS-13 gang member Walter Javier Martinez.
Her brutal murder inspired the proposed Kayla Hamilton Act, legislation which would clamp down on the way the federal government deals with unaccompanied migrant children.
In a debate about the legislation, Democrat Crockett argued that Republicans are using victims to push their own political agenda.
‘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,’ she said.
‘Stop just throwing a random dead person’s name on something for your own political expediency.’
The comments enraged Hamilton’s mother. Nobles told Fox & Friends First: ‘I was really furious, because you don’t just call a victim of a crime just a random dead person. No victim should be referred as a random dead person’
Tammy Nobles, whose daughter was murdered by an illegal migrant, hit out at Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett after she referred to her daughter as a ‘random dead person’
Kayla Hamilton was strangled to death in 2022 by a 17-year-old El Salvador native who entered the U.S illegally
The house of representatives was debating a Republican-led bill named after Hamilton when Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett made her controversial remarks
The house of representatives was debating a Republican-led bill named after Hamilton when the congresswoman made her controversial remarks.
Nobles even went to far as to say that Crockett’s ‘nasty’ remarks ‘came across as racist.’
She went on to share memories of her daughter and said Hamilton was ‘a very happy and energetic child’ who ‘loved unconditionally.’
Hamilton also loved going to church and cared for animals and homeless people, according to her mother.
Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler, who serves the county in which Hamilton was murdered, condemned Crockett’s remarks as well.
He said calling the victim ‘random’ was ‘dismissive and insensitive.’
Nobles hoped that her daughter’s namesake bill will prevent similar crimes in the future.
‘It’s very important to protect the children,’ she said.
The Kayla Hamilton Act aims to address gaps in the federal government’s handling of unaccompanied migrant children.
The Kayla Hamilton Act aims to protect other Americans from meeting the same fate as Hamilton by requiring extra screening for migrants
Hamilton’s mother, Tammy Nobles (pictured) said that Crockett’s remarks ‘came across as racist’
The bill would require the Department of Health and Human Services to contact the migrant’s home country for any criminal history and screen them for gang affiliated tattoos.
Hamilton’s murderer had previous criminal activity in his home country of El Salvador, but because the government only looked at United States criminal records, he was allowed through.
The Martinez was sentenced to 70 years in jail for Hamilton’s murder.
