HOUSE MARKUP ERUPTS OVER UAC VETTING: DEM REP CALLS KAYLA HAMILTON ‘RANDOM DEAD PERSON’ AS GOP PUSHES HHS CRACKDOWN

During a House Judiciary Committee markup on the Kayla Hamilton Act, Rep. Jasmine Crockett criticized Republicans for leveraging tragedy and referred to Hamilton as a “random dead person,” sparking uproar. The GOP-backed bill would require HHS to assess whether unaccompanied alien children (UACs) pose a danger before placement with sponsors. The exchange ties into mounting congressional scrutiny of HHS’s UAC placement vetting following the Kayla Hamilton case.