Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the Judiciary Committee Chairman, blamed the Biden administration for the murder of an American citizen in Maryland by a teenager and gang member who entered the United States illegally in a tweet on May 23.
"Kayla Hamilton was allegedly murdered by a gang member who illegally crossed the southern border," Jordan wrote. "After the murder, officials placed the gang member in a foster home with other kids. Read our report on how the Biden Admin should have seen it coming here."
According to the committee's Interim Staff Report, the murderer was a 16-year-old immigrant from El Salvador who was also a member of MS-13, a violent gang with over 10,000 members in the United States. The murderer entered the U.S. in March 2022 in the Rio Grande Valley Sector as an unaccompanied child. He was 17 years old by the time he was arrested in Aberdeen, Maryland.
The report also alleged that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, missed key warning signs about the murderer's "propensity for violence," including gang tattoos and an arrest record in El Salvador. The murderer was also placed in a foster home with other children while the homicide case was still pending.
According to the New York Post, Hamilton's mother, Tammy Nobles, testified before Congress and said the White House was responsible for her daughter's death.
“If there was a more secured border and individuals coming here was properly vetted, my daughter would still be alive today,” Nobles told “Fox and Friends First” host, Ashley Strohmier, on May 23. “They let her down.”
“Not in a million years,” Nobles said when asked if she ever thought a tragedy like this would impact her family. “I never thought I would lose my daughter at 20 years old.”
According to Fox News, 16 individuals on the FBI's terror watchlist were encountered at the southern border in April. Statistics from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol revealed that "16 people — more than all four years of fiscal years 17, 18, 19, and 20 combined — were stopped by Border Patrol agents” in April.
In fiscal 23 there have been “98 encounters at the southern and northern borders between ports of entry,” Fox News reported. "That’s the same as all of fiscal 22. There were 16 in FY 21, three in FY 20 and FY 19, six in FY18, and two in FY 12."
Breitbart reported that CBP has apprehended over 5 million people for entering the United States illegally. That number does not include 1.5 million people who escaped apprehension since Mayorkas took office under the Biden administration.
Mayorkas is scheduled to appear in a Congressional hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in July where his potential impeachment could be discussed. In a significant boon to House Republicans, House Majority Whip, Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), recently voiced his support for impeaching Mayorkas.
In an April 19 press release from the House Committee on Homeland Security, House Republicans detailed Mayorkas' "abject failure at the border," adding that "this border crisis sits squarely on Secretary Mayorkas’ shoulders, as he has failed to fulfill his duties as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security."
During a meeting held by the committee on the same day, Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the committee, blamed Mayorkas for "the systematic dismantling and transformation of our border to a lawless and dangerous open border."
