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Lawyer For Man Charged With Mollie Tibbetts' Murder Argues He's in the Country Legally
Townhall.com ^ | August 22, 2018 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 08/22/2018 1:20:45 PM PDT by Kaslin

The lawyer for Cristihian Bahena Rivera, the Mexican man accused of killing 20-year-old Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, argues he is in the country legally for work. From the Des Moines Register

The government is incorrectly promoting the idea that Rivera is not in Iowa legally, attorney Allen Richards of Tama said in a court document asking for a gag order in the case.

"Sad and sorry Trump has weighed in on this matter in national media which will poison the entire possible pool of jury members," Richards wrote, referencing a statement from the president citing Tibbetts' death as an example why "immigration laws are such a disgrace."

Rivera has lived in Iowa for four to seven years, working at Yarrabee Farms, a Brooklyn-area farm owned by Eric Lang, the brother of Craig Lang, a prominent Republican.

Craig Lang has verified that Rivera is in Iowa legally, according to Richards’ motion.

According to another report from Fox News, Rivera was able to pass through the E-Verify system by allegedly using a stolen identity:

The Mexican national accused of murdering college student Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa last month lived in the United States illegally for several years -- but was reportedly still able to pass a government system designed to weed out illegal immigrants from obtaining American jobs by using a stolen ID.

Rivera's employer, Yarrabee Farms, confirmed Tuesday that Rivera worked at the farm for four years and said Rivera passed the federal E-Verify check, which is intended to maintain a database of I-9 forms and tax records of employees across the country.

A law enforcement official told the Washington Post that Rivera used a stolen ID to thwart the E-Verify check conducted by Yarrabee Farms – which experts told Fox News is one way to show that the system is not foolproof. 

On Tuesday, local law enforcement authorities declared Rivera is an illegal alien and revealed he has been living in the country for up to seven years unlawfully.

Charges were filed in Poweshiek County District court today. Investigators can
confirm Mr. Rivera is an "illegal alien" for 4-7 years.— KWWL (@KWWL) August 21, 2018

Rivera was arraigned in court for the first time Wednesday afternoon and listened to instructions from the judge through an interpreter.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: mexico; mollie; mollietibbets; mollietibbetts; tibbetts
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To: Sedona13
Company retracted and said this guy was NOT E-verified. In fact, the company doesn’t seem to use e-verify as the company is not registered to use the e-verify system.

WOW Do you have a link for that? Amazing they would claim they cleared him through E-verify and they don't even use it? Uh oh...

81 posted on 08/22/2018 6:52:19 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: Brown Deer
failed the E-Verify system check.

Any and everything 'obama' indicated failure. Except for looting the US Treasury.

82 posted on 08/22/2018 7:11:55 PM PDT by LucyT (It is President Trump, - not "Trump.")
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To: Eleutheria5
“She’s dead, so it doesn’t make much difference what her politics used to be.”

Um, actually, it does, because she was one of the many who participated in spreading hate against the current US immigration policies and white people. I know her family wants to rail against any discussion of who actually killed Molly, but they don't own the facts. The facts are all clear for us to see—another poor, naive young woman who thought she would be safe running alone in the countryside because after all, immigrants commit fewer crimes than us evil white Americans. Molly's death is a tragic loss for her family, and it could have sadly been prevented.

83 posted on 08/22/2018 7:30:44 PM PDT by binreadin
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To: Kaslin

That is not a defense.

He is being charged with murder.


84 posted on 08/22/2018 7:37:36 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Another American Dreamer...


85 posted on 08/22/2018 9:09:59 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: McGavin999
E Verify would be effective if the IRS notified employers of problems with social security matches. That was the IRS would know that one person or the other was using stolen ID

The IRS was too busy illegally harassing Tea Party people on the orders of the Lying Brown Clown, King Kenya.

Waiting patiently here for the legalization of hemp to take effect, so's we can start boiling rope for illegal and government transgressors alike...

86 posted on 08/22/2018 9:14:02 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: kiryandil

I spent half of my life living in Iowa and still have friends and relatives there. This must have shaken them up. You don’t expect much of this kind of thing in Iowa.


87 posted on 08/22/2018 9:15:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Kaslin

Pavlich provided the defendant’s lawyers name along with his quotes.

That is the right way, i.e., to identify the lawyer whose quotes were being mentioned.


88 posted on 08/22/2018 9:53:10 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: bgill
Check her facebook, twitter and other social media.

I haven't seen anything convincing.

She’s posted how she hates Trump

Where was that? Her tweets apparently contain only one reference to Trump:


https://twitter.com/Motibbs/status/788923019745910784

So, clearly, she was crowd-counting challenged.

https://vsco.co/mollietibbetts/images/1 This is the only one I bookmarked. Check the pic of “____ Donald Trump” and what she thinks of gun owners.

You mean this one? She merely documented it. There is no indication as to how she felt about it. As for guns, I couldn't find much of anything on her Twitter. Just this from 2013, which isn't exactly political.

There are a couple posts this morning with her #IHateWhitePeople twitter but I don’t remember which threads.

You mean this one?


https://twitter.com/Motibbs/status/940792919266680833

That was the night of the Roy Moore debacle in Alabama, in which Rip van Sessions' Senate seat flipped without needing to.

Perhaps she was interested in the election, went on Twitter to see how it went (22:58 EST), and found the Sikh professor's tweet. And was disgusted with the outcome. The professor's graphic clearly shows weak white support for Roy. A couple of percent more white votes, and Roy would have won. So, in a fit of disappointment, she denounces whites, knowing that anyone can look at her profile pic and see that she is white.

IOW, maybe she was actually a Deplorable. We can't really tell from her Twitter.

89 posted on 08/22/2018 10:44:35 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mexico isn’t Iowa, and the Front Hole D*ckSucker that was the Brown Clown Zerobama brought it to us...


90 posted on 08/22/2018 11:16:36 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: binreadin

OK. She’s skewered by her own fallacies. Fair enough. Now she can’t do a thing about it. Guess she won’t be taking part in the mid-terms. But let’s not make sport of her, the way we have in the past when Teddy Kennedy or Helen Th###as (She Who Must Not Be Named) died of natural causes. Save the scorn for her killer.


91 posted on 08/22/2018 11:47:41 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Kaslin
Everify is a feel good system run by a corrupt Federal Government that cannot fix any thing. As my tagline says.

This illegal and the farm he works on need to both have their day in court because BOTH are criminals.

92 posted on 08/23/2018 12:51:13 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: miss marmelstein
Remember: Steinle’s murderer walked.

As will he. The defense lawyer will already plead insanity because of him not "remembering" and the bleeding hearts will feel sorry for his illegal sorry ass.

I am going to be watching this very close and after admitting to the crime and showing officers where the body was, this bastard better fry. If not, the days of being "polite" are over.

93 posted on 08/23/2018 12:56:47 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: princess leah
place where VIGILANTES will takeover if the FED GOV’T does not stand up for our LAWS!!!!

It is PAST high time to start taking our laws into our own hands. Read tagline and it will tell you how I feel

94 posted on 08/23/2018 12:59:34 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: robel; Tennessee Nana; TADSLOS
Mollie's alleged killer used a legal ID, it just wasn’t his.

About sums it up........he just snuck in "for a better life."

95 posted on 08/23/2018 3:48:06 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Kaslin

So because he has a stolen identity, and that identity passed E-Verify, he is in the country legally. Liberal logic. WTF has happened to our country...these people would’ve been hanged in the past simply for suggesting such an absurd thing.


96 posted on 08/23/2018 9:50:04 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: Liz; AuntB; greyfoxx39; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; ...

Gee Liz give me your checkbook...I can go to your bank and help myself to your millions !!!

Your check are real and legal ...who will care that theyre not mine ???


97 posted on 08/23/2018 11:10:25 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: bgill
Check her facebook, twitter and other social media. She’s posted how she hates Trump, hates white people and said all white people should be killed.

OOoops!

Nothing like a martyr - dyin' for the cause.

98 posted on 08/24/2018 5:34:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: cynwoody

3JOH22A

Iowa license plaTE?


99 posted on 08/24/2018 5:40:49 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mozzafiato
WTF has happened to our country...

Ya know; we've been asking this same question for; oh; 4 decades or more now.

100 posted on 08/24/2018 5:43:55 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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