House Judiciary report faults Biden admin for release of alleged MS-13 member now charged with murder
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The House Judiciary Committee is publishing an interim report faulting the Biden administration for releasing a migrant now accused of the murder of a Maryland woman.
Republicans on the Committee opened an investigation in February into the circumstances of Hamilton’s death. The suspect, arrested in January, is an illegal immigrant and alleged MS-13 gang member, who police said entered the U.S. via Rio Grande City, Texas as an unaccompanied child in March 2022 and was transferred to a woman identified as his aunt in Frederick, Maryland. He is charged with strangling Hamilton, who was autistic, to death. The Murder of Kayla Hamilton: A Case Study for Immigration Enforcement and Border Security (1) by Fox News on Scribd Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
Unaccompanied children are moved from Border Patrol custody into Health and Human Services (HHS) care, and are typically then transferred to a sponsor -- normally a parent or relative -- who is already in the U.S. With the 2021 migrant crisis, which is still ongoing, the U.S. saw a surge in UAC encounters. In FY 2022, there were over 152,000 encounters of UACs. He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter.