Decencyevolves: Yes. I noticed Fox News found this far more newsworthy than the fact that the President’s campaign manager was convicted of eight felonies, and that the President’s lawyer plead guilty to eight more while implicating the President directly in a felony. How predictable is that choice?

In addition to the rather obvious issue of what might be considered newsworthy today, there is also the fact that the overwhelming majority of female murder victims are killed by people they know (primarily intimate partners), not by "illegals." Here's a study that provides all the horrifying statistics and details:

http://www.vpc.org/studies/wmmw2017.pdf

Notablogger: This is a red herring with zero bearing on this case. Nobody is claiming that most female murder victims in the U.S. are killed by illegal aliens. Reducing the consequences for domestic violence (as California has done)has exacerbated the problem here and I can cite you some brutal examples if you like. The fact remains, Mollie Tibbetts would not have been killed by Cristhian Bahena Rivera, if he had been prevented from entering the U.S. illegally.

Kent—I’m sure your right. This is the problem with relying on commentary about news coverage rather than the news coverage myself and I’m confident you consume far more Fox News coverage than I do. That said, the choice to focus on this story on the day of two hugely important criminal law stories regarding the Administration says something—if not about Fox News than perhaps about the author of this post, right?

Statement from Hollie Tibbetts's aunt Billie Jo Calderwood on Facebook:

"Please remember, Evil comes in EVERY color. Our family has been blessed to be surrounded by love, friendship and support throughout this entire ordeal by friends from all different nations and races. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you."

One of Hollie Tibbetts's cousins also posted a reply on Twitter to someone who tweeted about the accused killer being an "illegal." The cousin's reply is R-rated, so I won't reproduce it here in its entirety, but it ended with this sentence: "Take my cousin's name our of your mouth."

Lastly, I'll just make the observation that there were two women whose brutal murders made the national news in the past week. One was allegedly murdered by an "illegal." The other, who was pregnant, was allegedly murdered by her all-American husband, who also allegedly murdered two innocent little girls. Only one of these murders has been mentioned on this blog.

Decencyevolves: The Tibbetts family are simply better people than the White House Administration and other xenophobes who would exploit Mollie Tibbetts' death for their own political ends. As Mollie Tibbetts’ father noted through his grief, “The Hispanic community are Iowans. They have the same values as Iowans," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, they're Iowans with better food."

All the equivalency and diversion in the world does not remove the fact that the murderer was in this country illegally because of the government's failure to enforce immigration law and this girl is dead because of it. It does not matter that the killer was a Mexican. The crime rate for immigrants does not matter. She would be alive right now if the last very compassionate and sensitive White House Administration had bothered to enforce the law.