• Undocumented immigrant charged with murder of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/21/mollie-tibbett-iowa-students-body-found-media-reports-say/1050186002/
great that's all they need to politicise the hell out of this.
Sadly the fact that tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants are contributing positively to American society will be brushed aside because of this case. And unfortunately it's almost the perfect ammo for right wing nuts to spread their bullshit fear mongering. Bad news sells.
Look dude, people can state that there are plenty of good illegal immigrants. You can still acknowledge that people who need to be deported should be deported. It can be easily argued that this woman would have been alive today had the person been deported. Just like the last murder by an illegal immigrant who was deported multiple times. Saying this doesn't mean that illegal immigrants are inherently bad. It is literally saying if this person accused of murder had been deported this could have easily never happened. Don't criticize making this article ammo for "bullshit fear mongering" when you are politicizing her death to promote your own ideology.
I'm glad you keep attacking straw men instead of forming actual arguments.
The cruel irony is that she seemed like a fairly liberal person going off her social media feeds. Having the right, and Trump specifically, use her tragic death as a platform to push their identity politics just makes this all the more sadder. Her family doesn't deserve this sort of grandstanding.
It's handy to remember that he's just a suspect that's been arrested and that doesn't mean he actually killed the woman. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the police took him in and are going to string him up as the number one suspect and get him imprisoned simply because it's easier to blame an undocumented immigrant than actually work through a case. Undocumented immigrants just don't really commit crimes, they don't want to be picked up by the cops and sent home again, and even if this dude is acquitted, that's what's going to happen.
He almost definitely did it. Per the Washington Post The videos had captured images of Tibbetts running as well as a Black Chevy Malibu that investigators said they traced to Rivera, informing a determination that Rivera was one of the last people to see her running, Rahn said. They conducted a lengthy interview with Rivera on Monday after approaching him for the first time, in which he told them about seeing her running and how he pursued her. “He was very compliant,” Rahn said. “He was willing to talk to us. There was no fight or struggle of any kind.” But the account Rivera gave investigators has some significant gaps in it, according to an affidavit filed in district court. Rivera told them that he panicked after Tibbetts said she was going to call the police and “blocked” his “memory,” the affidavit said. His memory picks up again at an intersection where he noticed a headphone earpiece in his lap, and realized he had put Tibbetts in his trunk, where he found her with blood on her head, it said. He then dragged her into a secluded place in a cornfield, where he left her face up and covered her with corn stalks.
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