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   The Mexican national accused of murdering college student Mollie   
   Tibbetts in Iowa last month lived in the United States illegally   
   for several years -- and worked for a farm that used Social   
   Security Administration data in part to vet potential employees,   
   according to officials there.   
      
   However, Yarrabee Farms co-owner and manager Dane Lang clarified   
   Wednesday afternoon that the farm did not use a federal E-Verify   
   check on suspect Cristhian Rivera, despite the company's claim   
   earlier in the day that it did.   
      
   Lang said Rivera provided a state-issued photo identification   
   and social security card. “We learned that our employee was not   
   who he said he is.”   
      
   Jackie Ibanez has the latest details on the case.   
   Rivera, 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder   
   Tuesday after the body of Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of   
   Iowa student, was discovered in a cornfield about 12 miles   
   southeast of Brooklyn, where she was last seen running. Police   
   said Rivera was in the country illegally and an immigration   
   detainer was placed on him after his arrest.   
      
   Yarrabee Farms told reporters Rivera worked at the farm for four   
   years.   
      
   Lang said earlier that all documents regarding Rivera’s   
   employment have been turned over to authorities. Yarrabee Farms   
   is owned by the family of Craig Lang, the former president of   
   the Iowa Farm Bureau and a former GOP primary candidate to be   
   Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture.   
      
   United States Citizenship and Immigration Services told Fox   
   News: "A search of records by USCIS revealed Rivera did not make   
   any DACA requests nor were any grants given. We have found no   
   record in our systems indicating he has any lawful immigration   
   status." DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was   
   instituted during the Obama administration and allows some   
   immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to remain   
   in the country.   
      
   Investigators have said he arrived to the U.S. illegally from   
   Mexico at some point between 4 and 7 years ago.   
      
   Cristhian Rivera is charged with murder of 20-year-old Iowa   
   student Mollie Tibbetts.   
   A search of Iowa court records revealed no prior criminal   
   history for Rivera, and it's unclear whether he'd ever been   
   subject to prior deportation proceedings.   
      
   Identity fraud is the most common way illegal immigrants and   
   "unscrupulous employers" try to thwart the system, said Jessica   
   Vaughan, the director of policy studies for the Center for   
   Immigration Studies.   
      
   While the details regarding how Rivera may have gamed the system   
   remain unclear, Vaughan said many of the cases prosecuted in the   
   past have seen an illegal immigrant simply purchase fraudulent   
   identities.   
      
   “There have been cases of inmates selling their identities   
   because they are incarcerated and don’t need them,” she said.   
      
   In one Massachusetts case, a hiring manager actually had an   
   agreement with an identity vendor across the street who would   
   help any illegal immigrant receive an identity that would pass   
   muster, Vaughan said.   
      
   “They would send them across the street and tell them to come   
   back later,” she said.   
      
   Rivera’s arrival to the U.S. as a teenager has also raised   
   questions about if he may have been a so-called “Dreamer,” who   
   may have qualified for the Obama administration's Deferred   
   Action for Childhood Arrivals.   
      
   Vaughan, however, said it is unlikely because to qualify for   
   DACA, an illegal immigrant child must have lived in the U.S. for   
   at least five years before 2012. If Rivera arrived in 2011 – the   
   earliest officials believed he could have crossed the border   
   from Mexico – he would not have fit the criteria.   
      
   USCIS officials have not confirmed any possible DACA status for   
   Rivera.   
      
   “There are a lot of layers to peel off,” Vaughan said.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/22/mollie-tibbetts-murder-   
   suspect-illegal-immigrant-cristhian-rivera-allegedly-passed-e-   
   verify-system.html   
                     
      
      
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