Pay Attention to the Killing of Mollie Tibbetts

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Pay Attention to the Killing of Mollie Tibbetts
By Chris Buskirk| August 25th, 2018

Iowa police announced this week what we long suspected: Mollie Tibbetts, the Iowa college student who was missing for over a month, is dead. The preliminary autopsy report, released Thursday, reveals that she was killed by “multiple sharp force injuries.” Prosecutors have filed first-degree murder charges against Cristhian Rivera, a 24-year-old Mexican who had been working at Yarrabee Farms in Brooklyn, Iowa, since 2014. The police say that Rivera is in the country illegally — though this has been disputed by his lawyer — and that he presented fraudulent identification to his employer when he was hired. Anyone really interested in understanding why Trump was elected president should pay careful attention to this episode.

We don’t yet know for sure if Rivera is guilty, but the tragedy of the scenario painted by the charges is explosive. The way many people see it, if a foreign national, apparently in the country illegally, kills an American citizen, it underscores the urgency of Trump’s message of putting Americans first. In other words, the murder of Mollie Tibbetts was not only ugly and evil, it was unnecessary and utterly preventable by government action.

Some supporters of amnesty for illegal immigrants already in the country, as well as increased legal immigration, don’t seem to be able to acknowledge the reality of Tibbetts’ murder.

Read the rest in the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/opinion/mollie-tibbetts-immigration-trump.html

[jpsb]

Oh my goodness, a good article from the New York Times. Gag me with a spoon.

[GrouchoTex]

Oh my goodness, a good article from the New York Times. Gag me with a spoon.

Right, they had somebody who knew what they were talking about substituting for that "conservative" David Brooks.

[sneakypete]

We don’t yet know for sure if Rivera is guilty,

Maybe,but we sure have a couple of very BIG clues. One is he admitted murdering her,and the other is he led them to her body. I'm going to go out on a limb here,and state that is all they need for a conviction.

 

[sneakypete]

Oh my goodness, a good article from the New York Times. Gag me with a spoon.

@jpsb

Well,they DID indicate he might not be guilty.

[Wingnut]

[Fishrrman]

The article may or may not be interesting or informative.

But I ain't givin' the New York Times site a hit.