201 Democrats Vote AGAINST Bill Keeping Gangbanger Illegals Off U.S. Streets

Two hundred and one House Democrats voted against the Kayla Hamilton Act, legislation aimed at tightening screening and detention requirements for unaccompanied illegal migrant minors with gang indicators, despite the bill passing 225–201 with Republican support and just seven Democrats crossing party lines. The bill is named for Kayla Hamilton, a 20-year-old woman with autism who was murdered in 2022 by an MS-13 gang member from El Salvador who entered the U.S. illegally as an unaccompanied minor. T

Democrats are the enemy of the people.

These violent gangbangers are what? Their constituency? Clearly the American people aren’t.

201 House Dems vote against bill named after 20-year-old American killed by illegal immigrant teen

The bill is named after Kayla Hamilton, who was killed by an illegal immigrant in 2022

By Elizabeth Elkind. Fox News, December 16, 2025:

Two hundred and one House Democrats voted against a bill that Republicans say would prevent dangerous migrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children from walking free on the streets.

The legislation passed in a 225-201 vote. Just seven Democrats voted with Republicans in favor of the bill: Reps. Adam Gray, D-Calif.; Jared Golden, D-Maine; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; Don Davis, D-N.C.; Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas; Laura Gillen, D-N.Y., and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas.

The Kayla Hamilton Act is named after a 20-year-old woman with autism who was killed by a 16-year-old from El Salvador, Walter Javier Martinez, in 2022. Martinez pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in April.

Martiez came to the U.S. illegally as an unaccompanied minor and was a member of the notorious MS-13 gang, according to a press release from the Maryland State Attorney’s Office in Hartford County.

The bill, led by Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., would heighten screening requirements for unaccompanied migrant children (UAC) who come to the U.S. undocumented in ways that Republicans argue could prevent future tragedies like Hamilton’s.

“I think in this one instance, a simple phone call to El Salvador would have kept him in a secure facility. An eyeball check on gang tattoos on his body would have kept him in the secure facility, because he had both. He would have never been on our streets. He would have been in a security facility pending his immigration hearing, which happens pretty quickly,” Fry told Fox News Digital Tuesday afternoon.

His bill would mandate that the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) screen unaccompanied minors for gang tattoos and place UACs who have such indicators in secure federal facilities rather than letting them go to a sponsor somewhere in the U.S.

It would also prohibit unaccompanied minors from going to sponsors who are also undocumented in the U.S.

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