On July 18, 2018, 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts went missing from Brooklyn, Iowa and a month later Tibbetts was found dead having been brutally murdered. On September 17, 2018, 24-year-old Celia Barquin Arozamena of Ames, Iowa was found dead on a local golf course, she had been raped and stabbed. Two separate incidents of violence committed by two different men, one from Mexico and the other from the U.S. and the reactions of the media and the government.
Immigration is a tremendous and hot issue in our country and due to the media and government sharing their viewpoints on this, it is raising the level of hatred and xenophobia. The media was quick to announce that Tibbett’s murderer was an undocumented immigrant as if being Mexican means that you are likely to commit a violent crime. I happen to know that undocumented immigrants have the lowest percentage of committing crimes, come on, they do not want to be deported. Let me be honest here, my dad was murdered in 1984 by an undocumented immigrant and did not lead me to believe that all undocumented immigrants were going to murder me.
The government, especially #45, is the master of xenophobia and rhetorical ( to me, stupid) opinions and his undying love for taco bowls to show his love for Mexicans. #45 has shown his racism from day one on the campaign trail and continues to do so especially through his Adolf Twitler account where he controls the media with his tweets. Tibbetts father, Ron Tibbetts asked Politian’s not to use Mollie’s death as a “pawn” in their push for harsh immigration laws, a cause that Mollie herself found it to be racist. Look at the article and research further into this issue to see what is going behind the scenes to see the difference in both suspects and see and believe that the American suspect is no better than the undocumented suspect. I am in no way supporting the suspected killer of Mollie Tibbetts and he should fully be sentenced to the extent of the law as I see him as a perpetrator, not an undocumented immigrant, it has nothing to do with the suspect killing Ms. Tibbetts.
