Mom of MS-13 murder victim confronts Democrat lawmaker's 'trap' question at Senate border hearing

Tammy Nobles says she refused to fall into one Democratic lawmaker's trap when a line of questioning during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday turned into a clash over immigration Sen Alex Padilla of California pressed a panel of invited speakers that included Nobles angel mom Marie Vega and others touched by the illegal immigration topic during the hearing asking them to raise their hand if they held all immigrants are criminals Nobles whose -year-old daughter Kayla Hamilton was murdered by illegal immigrant and MS- gang member Walter Martinez in July fired back with the question Are you talking about legal immigrants or are you talking about regular immigrants before a back-and-forth proceeded CROCKETT NOTED SHE 'BROKE DOWN IN TEARS' WATCHING ALEX PADILLA GET FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCENobles informed Fox Friends First on Wednesday that she felt the question was designed to trap Vega who was testifying about the murder of her son Javier Harvey Vega Jr at the hands of an illegal immigrant during former President Barack Obama's second term in I think he was trying to get her trapped and then I just jumped in and was like 'What do you mean Do you mean illegal immigrants that didn't come the right way Or do you mean legal immigrants who did it the right way ' I think he was trying to trap us into saying something that would trip us up she alleged I didn't let him do that You can't say all expatriates You can't put them all in the same category she added During the hearing Padilla challenged the Trump administration's rhetoric that their hardline approach to going after the alleged worst of the worst is rectifying a predicament exacerbated by the Biden administration DEMOCRAT SENATOR FORCIBLY REMOVED AFTER CRASHING DHS SECRETARY NOEM'S PRESS CONFERENCE The way they present it the way they talk about President Biden and prior Democratic administrations suggests it was never a priority for Democratic administrations to go after criminals and that Democrats and Democratic administrations just didn't care about the presence of dangerous people living in our communities he announced That's purely not true he continued before pointing to an immigration official who affirmed his suggestion that ICE agents were not discouraged from enforcing the law under Biden's tenure Nobles is now encouraging Congress to pass the Kayla Hamilton Act introduced by South Carolina Republican Rep Russell Fry to tighten existing loopholes regarding how the federal cabinet handles unaccompanied minor children Tuesday's speaker panel also included Alejandro Barranco a U S Marine veteran who says his illegal immigrant father was forcibly detained by ICE agents while working at his landscaping job in California last month These people had no warrant for him and no reason to chase him and beat him I believe my father was racially profiled I do believe the vast amount of undocumented people in this country are here to work and aid the country as well as raising children like my brothers and me My father like so various others deserves a fair chance to stay in the country he calls home This country is better because of people like my dad It's time our policies reflected that he mentioned Fox News' Peter Pinedo contributed to this analysis