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COLUMBUS, Ohio — President Trump said Friday night that Republicans will prevail in the midterm elections because Democrats “are not in a position to govern” with lax immigration policies that he said led to the death of Iowa teenager Mollie Tibbetts and others. Speaking to the Ohio state Republican Party’s annual dinner, Mr. Trump predicted, “This November we are going to win really big.” “Today’s Democrats are not just extreme, they are really not in a position to govern,” he said. “They are just not in a position to govern when you look at what they are for — open...

Title missing the word "Alien" because of 100 char limit The attorney for the accused murderer of Mollie Tibbetts filed a gag order on Wednesday to prevent his client from being referred to as an illegal alien. The defendant, 24-year-old Christian Bahena Rivera, has been charged with first degree murder for the slaying of Iowa college student Tibbetts. Rivera led investigators to the Tibbetts’ body in a cornfield after he admitted that he followed her while she was running. Rivera, a Mexican national, has been residing in the Poweshiek County area for up to seven years, according to officials. He...

A loyal reader sent me a curious email about the tragic case of an immigrant with a Spanish surname and a dark complexion who is accused of murdering a young woman in Iowa. It’s curious because roughly two to three women are killed each day in the U.S. by an intimate partner, according to the Violence Prevention Center, and yet you’ll never know the names of the victims because their deaths won’t come close to generating the wall-to-wall coverage focusing on the death of Mollie Tibbetts.

One of the two men arrested in the rape of an 11-year-old girl was denied bond...this morning. Juan Hernandez-Monzalvo...said little, through a translator. He was appointed a public defender and was ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim. DNA links rape suspect to second attack 2 men confess to rape of 11-year-old girl Hernandez-Monzalvo was on suicide watch yesterday and did not go before a judge. Hernandez-Monzalvo, 24, is facing several charges including kidnapping and raping a child younger than 13, which is punishable by life in prison. A second man, Richard Morales-Marin, 23, is also charged with...

Roosevelt Saverino does not remember exactly what he was talking about with Lila Meizell that Wednesday night. He just remembers her saying "Don't hang up" because her landscaper was at the door. When Meizell's phone abruptly hung up, Saverino knew something was wrong. He had his son call police. Authorities found Meizell, 83, beaten and left for dead in her house, which was set afire. Yesterday, details of the killing were provided by prosecutors during a hearing in which District Judge William Simmons ordered three people held without bond. Jose Alvarado, 37, Ramon Alvarado, 32, and Ana Lilian Rodas, 32,...

A second suspect has been charged in connection with the slaying of a Northwest Washington couple in their homes last weekend. Angela Hernandez, 20, of Ingraham Street NW, was arrested late Wednesday and ... ordered held without bail. Hernandez has admitted tying victims Michael Spevak, a psychiatrist, and his wife, Virginia, with telephone cords while her two companions robbed their home. ... The charging document states that Hernandez was a friend of a foster daughter of the Spevaks, and at one time spent a night in their home... She pointed out the house to two male friends, and one of...

An illegal immigrant was sentenced today in Chesapeake Circuit Court to a year in prison for having sex with a 13-year-old girl and producing nude images of the child. Carlos De La Cruz Ramos, fomerly of the 3700 block of S. Military Highway in Chesapeake, was arrested in May after a Wal-Mart store clerk processed film he had dropped off that showed images of a nude child, police said. Ramos was convicted in August of producing child pornography and carnal knowledge, both felonies carrying maximum punishments of 10 years in prison. Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney David Whitted said Ramos was 19...

ABC News has obtained exclusive data that shows the murder and robbery surge that spiked last year has continued in 2006, and in many communities across the country, crime has gotten worse. The Police Executive Research Forum, a think tank that serves many of the nation's police departments, examined the murder and robbery stats in 53 U.S. cities for the first six months of this year.... ...Murder was up in 26 of 53 cities — and robberies rose in 43 of 53 jurisdictions. For all jurisdictions reporting to the group, murder was up 4 percent. For the overall survey, robberies...

More Americans abducted along Mexico border than in Iraq LAREDO, Texas – This border area is one of the least publicized international crisis zones. More Americans have been kidnapped just in this area than in all of Iraq by Islamic terrorists. Twenty-six Americans are now officially listed as missing in the Laredo-Nuevo Laredo region of the U.S.-Mexico border—in addition to the more than 400 Mexicans reported to be suffering a similar fate. The number of American civilians missing or kidnapped in Iraq since the beginning of the war is 23 as of last September, the latest figure released by the...

NASHVILLE — A former Murfreesboro driver’s license examiner is among four people who have pleaded guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to award fraudulent driving documents to illegal immigrants in exchange for money. Bruce Conklin pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy charges during a federal court hearing for providing the driver’s licenses in exchange for more than $30,000 in bribes from Winchester Driving School. Also entering guilty pleas Monday were Bryan Guess, former owner of the school, and Sheila Robertson, a former employee of Guess. Shun Gao, who worked at a Chinese restaurant in Murfreesboro, pleaded guilty in May....

PRESIDENT Bush accuses those of us who want to secure America's borders and fully enforce our immigration laws of lacking "compassion." Huh. Well, I have yet to hear an ounce of compassion from President Bush for America's countless casualties of lax immigration enforcement. Where's the sympathy for innocent, law-abiding citizens who have lost their lives at the hands of illegal aliens and their open-borders enablers? Nope, we haven't heard a word about the victims as the White House pours on its unadulterated pro-illegal alien rhetoric and "undocumented workers do the jobs Americans won't do" propaganda — all in support of...

A suspect in a rape case was captured Monday because an alert pedestrian saw a man dragging a weeping 15-year-old girl down the street by her neck, police said. Jorge Alberto Ek-Luna, 26, was arrested near San Rafael High School as he tried to kidnap the girl using a broken bottle to threaten her, police spokeswoman Margo Rohrbacher said. Ek-Luna, a recent immigrant from Mexico who was staying in San Rafael, was booked on charges including rape, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon.

Farmworkers sue FEMA over lack of aid following hurricanes By Denise Kalette The Associated Press February 16, 2006 MIAMI · A coalition of Florida farmworkers has sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency, alleging the government refused to help undocumented farmworkers displaced by hurricanes with housing because of their immigration status. Many farmworkers who were denied federal help after their homes were destroyed were forced to live in cars and other dangerous situations, while trailers intended for emergency housing went unused, according to a lawsuit filed last week...

Mother raped at gas station Suspect description: Latino male, age 35 to 40, 6 feet, 1 inch, muscular build, short black hair and brown eyes By Lisa Rosetta The Salt Lake Tribune This is a police sketch of the rape suspect. A woman who stopped at a Cottonwood Heights gas station around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday was raped on a restroom floor as she held her 1-year-old son in her arms and her 3-year-old daughter looked on. The 21-year-old woman stopped at the Phillips 66 at 2235 E. Fort Union Blvd. after her daughter said she needed a restroom, said Salt...

Studies suggest high rate has link to illegal migrants Arizona consistently has one of the nation's highest rates of fatal hit-and-run crashes. And some statistical evidence suggests the state's large number of illegal immigrants is one reason. An Arizona Daily Star analysis of nearly 10,000 fatal crashes in the state from 1994 through 2004 found that drivers left the scene in 5.6 percent of the accidents. That's a higher rate of hit-and-runs than in any state except California. Just in 2004, 77 people in Arizona died in hit-and-runs. Over the past decade, half of Arizona's fatal hit-and-runs involved pedestrians —...

<p>A couple asleep in their bed were killed yesterday when a sport utility vehicle careened off a rain-slicked road in Egg Harbor Township and crashed into their home, coming to rest atop the bed.</p> <p>The 1993 Chevy Blazer veered off U.S. 40 just outside Atlantic City, knocked down a speed limit sign, crossed a sidewalk and punctured the exterior wall of the one-story house about 4:30 a.m., police said.</p>

Two men, who authorities believe were trying to smuggle two women and a child into the U.S. from Brazil, were arrested in Costa Mesa on Thursday) The federal government may file charges against two men who were arrested Thursday on suspicion of kidnapping. Immigration authorities believe the pair may have attempted to smuggle two women and a child into the United States from Brazil. Costa Mesa police arrested Reynaldo Eid Jr. , 46, of New York City and Alaor Docarmo Olivera Jr., 51, of Danbury, Conn., at 10 p.m. Thursday at the Travelodge in the 1900 block of Newport Boulevard,...

Accidents will happen. But, as any insurance company will tell you, most accidents could have been prevented. That’s what allows an accident to become a tragedy. Consider Michael Sprinkles. The 37-year-old paramedic was riding his motorcycle home from work on Sept. 6 when the California Highway Patrol says a car crossed the double-yellow line and killed him. Sprinkles’ death could easily have been prevented. The driver of the car shouldn’t have been behind the wheel -- or even in this country. Suspect Juan Bibinz is an illegal alien. This isn’t Bibinz’s first brush with the law. He’s been arrested a...