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201 Dems vote towards invoice requiring gang tattoo screening for migrant children
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201 Dems vote towards invoice requiring gang tattoo screening for migrant children

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200 and one Home Democrats voted towards a invoice that Republicans say would stop harmful migrants who got here to the U.S. illegally as kids from strolling free on the streets.

The laws handed in a 225 to 201 vote. Simply seven Democrats voted with Republicans on the invoice, together with Reps. Adam Grey, D-Calif., Jared Golden, D-Maine, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., Don Davis, D-N.C., Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas.

The Kayla Hamilton Act is called after a 20-year-old girl with autism who was killed by a 16-year-old from El Salvador, Walter Javier Martinez, in 2022. Martinez pleaded responsible to first-degree homicide in April of this yr.

Martiez got here to the U.S. illegally as an unaccompanied minor and was a member of the infamous MS-13 gang, in accordance with a press launch by the Maryland State Lawyer’s Workplace in Hartford County.

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Kayla Hamilton, who was murdered by an unlawful migrants in 2022, celebrating her birthday.  (Tammy Nobles)

The invoice, led by Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., would heighten screening necessities for unaccompanied migrant kids (UAC) who come to the U.S. undocumented in ways in which Republicans argue may stop future tragedies like Hamilton’s.

“I feel on this one occasion, a easy telephone name to El Salvador would have stored him in a safe facility. An eyeball test on gang tattoos on his physique would have stored him within the safe facility, as a result of he had each. He would have by no means been on our streets. He would have been in a safety facility pending his immigration listening to, which occurs fairly shortly,” Fry instructed Fox Information Digital on Tuesday afternoon.

His invoice would mandate the Well being and Human Providers Division (HHS) to display screen unaccompanied minors for gang tattoos, and place UACs who’ve such indicators in safe federal services slightly than letting them go to a sponsor someplace within the U.S.

It could additionally prohibit unaccompanied minors from going to sponsors who’re additionally undocumented within the U.S.

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Rep. Russell Fry, a Republican from South Carolina, throughout a Home Judiciary Committee listening to in Washington, D.C, US, on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)

Concerning the sponsors they’re positioned with, the federal authorities could be required to do a background test on all adults within the family, which would come with fingerprint scans and an immigration standing test.

Progressives who argued towards the invoice on the Home ground stated it might hurt already weak kids.

“Republicans are treating unaccompanied migrant kids like criminals,” Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ailing., stated. “We should use each instrument at our disposal to guard weak kids…this invoice criminalizes kids and creates harmful precedent that solely makes them extra weak.”

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United State Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries speaks throughout a press convention in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 20, 2025.   (Nathan Posner/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures)

Rep. Luz Rivas, D-Calif., stated it “undermines and strips crucial rights from weak kids” and “topics kids as younger as 12 to strip searches.”

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Fry stated in response, nevertheless, “We already do medical evaluations of kids after they come into this nation. It already is in apply. All we’re saying is that if there’s a tattoo in your shoulder, in your brow, that’s a gang tattoo, we’re saying hey, perhaps we should not allow them to out onto the streets.”

“I feel some mental honesty is basically essential for them,” Fry instructed Fox Information Digital after debate. “They wish to complain about medical evaluations for youths. That was a Democrat proposal. That was the Democrat regulation that they did. But when they wish to misrepresent what this invoice is about, simply because they do not like Trump — I feel children and their security are extra essential than being mad on the president.”

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox Information Digital main protection of the Home of Representatives. Earlier digital bylines seen at Day by day Mail and CBS Information.

Comply with on Twitter at @liz_elkind and ship tricks to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com

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