Source: Capradio
“When I think about that little boy sitting in a courtroom at five years old, all by himself with no one to look out for his rights and the government going against him, I really shudder,”
State Assemblymember Maggy Krell is no stranger to confronting the federal government on immigration issues.
The Sacramento Democrat and former prosecutor filed Freedom of Information Act requests and a federal lawsuit in June 2025 demanding information after immigration detentions at the John E. Moss Federal Building in downtown Sacramento led to a lockdown and protest.
She also has personal experience representing immigrant children — including those who were wrongly classified as “unaccompanied.”
“Back in 2018, during Trump's first administration, there was a five-year-old boy that crossed the Rio Grande with his mom; they were forcibly separated and he was classified as an unaccompanied minor,” Krell told Insight Host Vicki Gonzalez.
“When I think about that little boy sitting in a courtroom at five years old, all by himself with no one to look out for his rights and the government going against him, I really shudder,” she added. “That’s just not a way we should ever treat a child regardless of where they’re born and how they got into our country.”
Sacramento Assemblymember Maggy Krell.Sacramento Assemblymember Maggy Krell.Courtesy of Maggy Krell
Krell helped lead a national effort to send an open letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
