(08-22-2018 12:54 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  

(08-22-2018 12:48 PM)tigergreen Wrote:  Those of you blaming this on illegal immigration are completely missing the forest for the trees.
A friend who lives close to where Mollie Tibbetts lived posted this today - it is the most appropriate response I've seen to this tragedy.

This afternoon, when walking to my car, a man appeared behind me in the parking garage. He walked two or three steps behind me - well in my space. I cursed myself for not holding my keys, the way we women have been trained to do, between my knuckles to strike if necessary. For a few moments, I was terrified.

This man didn’t harm me, and was guilty of no more than being oblivious to personal space. Still, women have to think every day about protecting themselves from men.

I don’t remember where I read or heard this story (and forgive me if I mess up the details) A professor asked the young men to tell the class what they do to protect themselves from rape. The men laughed nervously. The question seemed ludicrous. The professor asked the young women the same question and they easily rattled off dozens of answers: park near streetlights, check under car before getting in, hold keys between knuckles... This is just part of being a woman.

When I got home and opened the news, my heart broke to see that Mollie Tibbetts’s body had been found. This story is local to me. A young Iowa woman went for a jog and wound up dead. Women should be able to walk home after dark, park in the first spot they see, have drinks in a bar, or go for a jog without being harmed by men.

The news, our senators, our governor, and the vice president (among others, I’m sure) are making this an immigration issue.

This isn’t a immigration issue. This is a men are hurting and raping and killing women issue. How do we make them stop?

If immigration laws had been followed with this murderer, would Mollie Tibbetts still be alive today? Women have rapists and murderers that are a threat to them in this country that are here legally. To allow that number of potential threats to our daughters and wives to be increased by allowing people that should not even be in this country is wrong, bad wrong. It amazes me people can't understand that point. Once again, if this illegal immigrant that committed this horrendous murder, who shouldn't have even been in this country, not been here, would that beautiful, sweet woman, Mollie Tibbetts, still be alive today?

1 million things could have kept him from doing this, or even seeing her that day. He could have been stopped at a red light, he could’ve worked late that day, he could have stopped to go to the bathroom, anything.

He was checked through e-verify by his employer, but he gave them fake ID. You would think that a company owned by a Republican senator would be able to sort that out, but....

Again, this woman's death isn't an immigration issue; it's an issue of why men do this, whether they are here illegally or not? The majority of illegal immigrants wouldn't have done a thing to this girl - contrary to Trump's rants.

To use a phrase gun fanatics are so fond of using, Immigrants (illegal or legal) don’t hurt people; people who want to rape and murder do.