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 believed "all immigrants are criminals."

Nobles, whose 20-year-old daughter Kayla Hamilton was murdered by illegal immigrant and MS-13 gang member Walter Martinez in July 2022, fired back with the question, "Are you talking about legal immigrants or are you talking about regular immigrants?" before a back-and-forth proceeded.

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Nobles told "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 2014.

"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 migrants. 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 problem exacerbated by the Biden administration.

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"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 said.

"[That's] simply 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 government 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 support the country as well as raising children like my brothers and me…

"My father, like so many 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 said. 

Fox News' Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.

Sam Haskell IV, the son of a Hollywood producer, committed suicide while he was in a Los Angeles jail awaiting trial, according to the coroner.

Haskell was accused of killing his wife and in-laws on Nov. 6, 2023, and previously pleaded not guilty. The County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner determined that Haskell committed suicide by "incised wounds to bilateral upper extremities." He was found dead on July 12.

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in an earlier statement that prosecutors were set to reveal new evidence at a preliminary hearing, which included an alleged affair with a 27-year-old woman. According to Hochman, the new evidence also revealed that a bloody knife with all three victims' DNA was found in the possession of Haskell.

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Haskell was found dead in his jail cell.

"Instead of standing before a judge and answering for the crimes he’s been charged with, the defendant managed to escape justice," Hochman said in a statement. "This is one last cruel act by someone who did the most horrific things for reasons we will never entirely know. A family that has been dealing with unimaginable loss now has been robbed of their chance to face him, hold him accountable for his barbaric actions, and openly share their grief and their cherished memories of their loved ones."

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Haskell's attorney previously told Fox News Digital that a court assessment that his client was at risk of self-harm is "wild speculation."

He was facing three murder charges for the deaths of Mei Haskell, 37, her mother Yanxiang Wang, 64, and her stepfather Gaoshan Li, 71.

Haskell was facing life in prison without parole if convicted of the murder charges.

After Haskell allegedly killed the three individuals, prosecutors allege he gave a group of laborers $500 to take heavy trash bags out of the home where the victims lived. One of the workers looked inside the bag and allegedly saw human remains, prompting a call to police.