The Murder of Mollie Tibbetts and Illegal Immigrant Crime: The Facts

Yesterday, authorities in Iowa charged 24-year old Cristhian Bahena Rivera with the murder ofMollie Tibbetts. Facts in these types of cases come out slowly and some details, substantive or minor, may change in the months ahead that could alter the correct view of this case. But nothing can change the fact that the murder of Tibbetts was a brutal and unforgivable act and that the murderer should be punished to the full extent of the law. Rivera is charged with that murder and there is a lot of evidence to support a conviction.     This terrible murder is already feeding into a political firestorm.  People with a political axe to grind, those who want to distract from the recentconviction of Paul Manafort and plea deal for Michael Cohen, and partisans who want to compare Tibbetts ’ murder to theshooting of Kate Steinle in an effort to impact the upcoming November elections are already using the tragic murder of Tibbetts as an argument for increasing the enforcement of immigration laws against people who aren ’t charged with murder or any real crime except violating international labor market regulations (immigration laws). They want to convict all illegal immigrants of this murder in the court of public opinion, not just the actual murderer.    Scarce law enforcement resources should be devoted to solving and deterring the most serious crimes regardless of who commits them.   That is the best policy for saving American lives. That means that increased enforcement of...
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