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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Mollie Tibbetts' father says leave our daughter out of your immigration debate Mollie Tibbetts' father says leave our daughter out of your immigration debate Luke Nozicka 6 hrs ago © Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation via AP, File FILE - This undated file photo released by the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation shows Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student who was reported missing from her hometown in the eastern Iowa city of Brooklyn on July 18, 2018. Greg Willey, the vice president of Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa, said a body found Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, is believed to be Tibbetts. No information has been released about where the body was found. (Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation via AP, File) DES MOINES, Iowa – As he watched a memorial service for U.S. Sen. John McCain, Rob Tibbetts remembered how people across the country rallied behind his family for most of the summer as they followed the search for his daughter, Mollie. He sensed that spirit of unity again as people from across the political spectrum came together for the longtime senator, in an effort that transcended their diverse opinions. After his daughter’s body was found and a man authorities say is an undocumented immigrant was charged with murder, some politicians immediately used Mollie's killing as a rallying cry for tougher immigration laws. Rob Tibbetts wants people to know his family does not want to be featured in that cause, he wrote in a column he shared exclusively with the Des Moines Register on Friday. While national news outlets continue to call him and send fruit baskets and describe Mollie as an "inspiration to the world," Tibbetts and his family just want to be left alone. “We want Mollie to die with dignity,” he said. In an interview with the Des Moines Register about the column, Tibbetts said his family has spent a lot of time in the last 11 days trying to get pundits, journalists and strangers to stop using the 20-year-old college student's death to advance a cause he said she "vehemently opposed." Mollie Tibbetts was found dead Aug. 21, her body hidden in a cornfield in rural Poweshiek County, after a month of relentless attention on her disappearance. Authorities have charged farmhand Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, with first-degree murder, saying he is an undocumented immigrant who confessed to abducting Mollie while she was on a run the evening of July 18, just outside of her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. Some of the anti-immigrant views Mollie would have considered profoundly racist have been sent straight to her father's phone. Tuesday afternoon, a week after Mollie was found, Rob Tibbetts said he felt devastated as he listened to the message from what appeared to be a Brooklyn number. It was a pre-recorded message sent from a computerized autodialer, or robocall. In it, a white nationalist called Mollie's family traitors to their race. Rob Tibbetts thinks he was among the first to receive the message, which claimed if Mollie could be brought back to life, she would say of immigrants, "Kill them all." "It was unbelievably painful," Rob Tibbetts said, recalling how his wife, Kacey Auston-Tibbetts, became physically ill when she heard it. "It was everything that’s dark and wrong in America right now." But as Tibbetts watched the discourse unravel around an event that has shattered him, it was "just too much to take." He's now pleading with politicians to show some decency. "I’m tired of my family being abused," he said. 'Please leave us out of your debate' After he read a guest column in the Register from Donald Trump Jr., the eldest child of President Donald Trump, Rob Tibbetts said he had to respond. Trump Jr.'s column criticized Democrats' response to Mollie Tibbetts' killing and said the party seemed more concerned with "protecting their radical open-borders agenda than the lives of innocent Americans." In a response published in the Register, Rob Tibbetts said his family was grateful to the politicians who heard his appeal and stopped using his daughter's death to promote agendas. But others did not, instead choosing to "callously distort and corrupt Mollie's tragic death," he said. Quoting Trump Jr.'s column, Tibbetts said it's "heartless" and "despicable." President Trump and other politicians – including Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and both of Iowa’s Republican U.S. senators – have referenced the University of Iowa student's death to promote increased border security measures. The day Tibbetts was found dead, Trump posted a statement on Twitter saying there were "serious and unpleasant consequences" when people cross the border illegally. The next day, he posted a video calling Tibbetts an incredible young woman before telling viewers, "We need the wall," referencing a estimated $22 billion barrier the president wants to build between the U.S. and Mexico. The White House also posted a video on Twitter of family members whose loved ones have been killed by undocumented immigrants. "The Tibbetts family has been permanently separated," the tweet read. "They are not alone." In her initial statement about Tibbetts' death, Reynolds said, in part: "We are angry that a broken immigration system allowed a predator like this to live in our community." At a roundtable Thursday in Ames, the governor pushed back on charges her comments inflamed immigration issues. "This is about policy," Reynolds said. Rob Tibbetts encouraged a debate on immigration but implored politicians and institutions to stop using Mollie's name in the conversation. He asked that his family be allowed to grieve in private. "Please leave us out of your debate," Tibbetts wrote in his guest column in the Register. "At long last, show some decency." Tibbetts noted that Vice President Mike Pence’s office has shown his family compassion and never politicized Mollie’s death. Pence, who met with Rob, his sons and Mollie’s boyfriend in August, told a crowd in Des Moines that Mollie's family was "on the hearts of every American." © Kelsey Kremer/The Register Deport illegals is painted onto Bloomfield Road on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, on the south side of Des Moines. 'My family stands with you' Since Bahena Rivera was charged, activists in Iowa's Latino community have seen an uptick in anti-immigrant rhetoric. The latest example was found Thursday when drivers on the south side of Des Moines passed large, red words spray-painted on the street: "Deport Illegals." The week before, one activist recalled, a middle-aged white man confronted a young Latina walking through Gray's Lake Park in Iowa's capital city, asking her, "What are you going to do about Mollie Tibbetts?" "This type of stuff has created a chilling effect on our community," said Joe Enriquez Henry, a vice president for the League of United Latin American Citizens. "We have a lot of people who are very worried, scared about what's going to happen next." At least two Iowa festivals dedicated to Latino heritage were canceled or postponed in the days after Bahena Rivera's arrest. An organizer of one event cited the heated racial rhetoric, including social media posts encouraging people to "hunt illegals in Iowa." In his guest column for the Register, Tibbetts offered his family's heartfelt apology to the Hispanic community for being mired after Bahena Rivera was charged. "My family stands with you," he noted. Mollie Tibbetts cherished her Latino nephews, her father said of his stepdaughter's sons. He recalled when Mollie was in California during the summer, she rode a jet ski with one of the young boys squeezed between the two of them. In his eulogy at Mollie's funeral, Tibbetts highlighted how the Hispanic community in central Iowa embraced him as he searched for his daughter, far from the home he shares with his new bride in California. While in Iowa for nearly six weeks, he ate at a number of Mexican restaurants, where employees were sensitive and kind, not allowing him to pay for his meals. "The Hispanic community are Iowans," he said to loud applause from the crowd at the funeral. "They have the same values as Iowans." To show their support, religious officials and leaders in the Des Moines' Latino community organized a vigil Thursday to honor Mollie Tibbetts. They denounced violence against women and condemned aggression toward Latinos. "That death was caused by an individual, not by a community," Henry of the League of United Latin American Citizens told the crowd on the steps of the Iowa State Capitol. Rob Tibbetts' column echoed that sentiment. He said Bahena Rivera is no more a reflection on the Hispanic community than "white supremacists are of all white people." He called on the public to celebrate America's diversity. The search for Mollie Tibbetts "brought this nation together like no other pursuit" for most of the summer, something that transcended race, gender and geography, her father wrote in the Register. And when you lose your best friend, he said, those differences are meaningless. "Let’s not lose sight of that miracle," Rob Tibbetts said of the unity. "Let’s not lose sight of Mollie." Poster Comment: America has always been a melting pot. But the wave of illegals is trying to quash everything that has been achieved. Yarabee Farms DID NOT USE the e-verify system to validate Bahena's lawful immigration status. I would go to the Taqueria's in Chicago after a concert and order big burrito to go and then eat it in the truck. They need to build the wall. Mexico built on along their southern border to keep out people from Central America who were using Mexico to get to the U.S. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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I was in a local restaurant when I lived in Chicago. The bus boys were Mexicans. One of them pointed to another and said, "Hey man, he's a wetback." ROTFLOL "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
"Leftist father would rather sacrifice his leftist daughter than admit he's wrong on illegal immigration."
According to the preliminary autopsy report, she died from multiple sharp object wounds. In other words, she was stabbed to death. And yes, her father is a leftist who is in denial. Apparently she had some relatives who were Hispanic and that is why her father is in denial. How could a Hispanic kill her when there are Hispanic relatives in the family tree? There are good and bad in all races. I know that from growing up in Chicago. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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