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   From: criminally-complicit@sfchronicle.com   
      
   Donald Trump Jr. has blamed Democrats for the murder of Iowa   
   student Mollie Tibbetts, ignoring pleas from members of her   
   family for the crime not to be politicised.   
      
   In an opinion piece in the Des Moines Register Friday, the   
   president’s eldest son said that Tibbetts was a “casualty of the   
   left’s love for open borders.”   
      
   "The radical policies of the Democrats have left a trail of   
   human wreckage in pursuit of their open borders dream," he said.   
      
   “The Democrats are pushing policies that are a direct   
   existential threat to the lives of innocent Americans,” wrote   
   Trump Organization executive Trump Jr, a prominent defender of   
   his father's policies.   
      
   Tibbetts vanished after going out for a jog in Brooklyn, Iowa in   
   July. Her body was found in August.   
      
   The man accused of the murder by police is an undocumented   
   Mexican immigrant.   
      
   President Trump and the Republican party, both of which often   
   seize on the deaths of young, white women to stoke fears of all   
   immigrants, have pushed the story hard in part to distract   
   attention from a series of ongoing scandals surrounding the   
   President.   
      
   At a fundraiser in Ohio in August Trump said that "Democrat   
   immigration policies are destroying innocent lives and spilling   
   very innocent blood."   
      
   Other conservatives have also cited the murder as evidence of   
   the danger posed by allowing undocumented migrants into the   
   U.S., including Senator Tom Cotton and commentator Candace Owens.   
      
   Tibbett’s family have repeatedly pushed back, saying that they   
   do not blame immigrants, and do not want her death to be used to   
   push an anti-immigrant agenda.   
      
   Sam Lucas, a cousin of Tibbetts, has described Owens as   
   “despicable” and of “using my cousins death as political   
   propaganda.”   
      
   "I don't want Mollie's memory to get lost amongst politics,"   
   Tibbett’s aunt, Billie Jo Calderwood, told CNN in August.   
      
   Citing the outpouring of support from all ethnicities during the   
   search for her niece, she said "It's not about race, it's about   
   people joining together to do good.”   
      
   At his daughter’s funeral in late August, Mollie Tibbett’s   
   father, Ron Tibbett’s, defended the Iowan Latino community.   
      
   “The Hispanic community are Iowans. They have the same values as   
   Iowans.” He said, adding “As far as I’m concerned, they’re   
   Iowans with better food.”   
      
   https://www.newsweek.com/ignoring-familys-plea-trump-accuses-   
   democrats-being-responsible-mollie-1101053   
                      
      
      
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