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   This is what the assholes at the NY Times changed it to.  Bing   
   fucked them over keeping the old headline.   
      
   "Killing of Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa Inflames Immigration Debate"   
      
   BROOKLYN, Iowa — Television cameras had for weeks swarmed this   
   small town in Iowa farm country as the police looked for Mollie   
   Tibbetts, the college student who went for a jog last month and   
   never returned home.   
      
   After hundreds of tips and interviews, and after countless   
   prayer vigils and donations to a reward fund, investigators got   
   a tragic break in their case on Tuesday. A body believed to be   
   Ms. Tibbetts’s was found buried beneath cornstalks on a farm   
   outside town. The authorities charged Cristhian Rivera, who they   
   said is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, with first-degree   
   murder in her death.   
      
   President Trump and other conservatives quickly cited the arrest   
   of Mr. Rivera, who worked on a farm owned by a prominent   
   Republican family, as proof of the flawed immigration system and   
   lax border security the president has long warned about.   
      
   Iowa’s Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, released a statement   
   saying she was “angry that a broken immigration system allowed a   
   predator like this to live in our community.” And the White   
   House Twitter account posted a video with the emotional accounts   
   of people whose family members had been killed by immigrants who   
   entered the country illegally.   
      
   “Mollie Tibbetts, an incredible young woman, is now permanently   
   separated from her family,” Mr. Trump said Wednesday evening in   
   a Twitter message, a clear reference to his much criticized   
   policy that tried to deter illegal border crossings by   
   separating migrant families.   
      
   “A person came in from Mexico illegally and killed her. We need   
   the wall, we need our immigration laws changed, we need our   
   border laws changed, we need Republicans to do it because the   
   Democrats aren’t going to do it,” he said.   
      
      
      
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   Mr. Rivera’s lawyer, Allan M. Richards, disputed the   
   government’s claims that his client was in the country illegally   
   and said Mr. Trump’s comments highlighting his immigration   
   status could prejudice future jurors. Mr. Richards said his   
   client, who was ordered held on $5 million cash bond during a   
   brief court appearance on Wednesday, came to the United States   
   at age 17, had the equivalent of a middle school education and   
   had worked for years tending to dairy cows.   
      
   “For sad and sorry Trump to say that they’re illegal without   
   even giving them a hearing is totally wrong,” Mr. Richards said   
   in an interview after the court hearing.   
      
   Mr. Rivera’s arrest was a lead story for much of Tuesday evening   
   and Wednesday on several conservative-leaning news websites, and   
   was touted as a boost to the Trump administration’s argument for   
   a more hard-line stance on immigration. The arrest came in the   
   same week that an undocumented immigrant from Mexico was charged   
   with second-degree murder in a Minnesota case.   
      
   Mr. Trump is expected to continue to push immigration as a   
   signature issue in courting voters ahead of November’s midterm   
   elections. In Iowa, Republicans are defending two congressional   
   seats that Democrats have high hopes of winning, and Governor   
   Reynolds is seeking a full term in her post.   
      
   The discovery of Ms. Tibbetts’s body devastated her hometown,   
   Brooklyn, where she had returned for the summer after studying   
   psychology at the University of Iowa. After weeks of anxiously   
   awaiting news, some residents said Wednesday that they were   
   frustrated to learn that the suspect in her death was in the   
   country illegally.   
      
   “Mollie would still be alive today if we would just enforce the   
   laws we already have in place,” said Kerry Traver, 73, who lives   
   in nearby Marengo. “Here illegally and nobody’s doing anything   
   about it.”   
      
   Rusty Clayton, owner of True Value Hardware in Brooklyn, said   
   customers in the small town — where doors are seldom locked —   
   have been coming in to have house keys made ever since news   
   broke that Ms. Tibbetts was missing. But he said the town views   
   its Hispanic residents not as outsiders, but as members of the   
   community.   
      
   “Their kids go to our school,” Mr. Clayton said. “One was   
   homecoming king, and another of the students has been   
   valedictorian of the class. The kids here well respect them and   
   interact with them.”   
      
   Immigration has long been a divisive issue in Iowa, where   
   farmers depend on foreign-born laborers to tend their crops and   
   livestock, but where an influx of Hispanic residents has exposed   
   tensions in some cities. While Iowa politicians from both major   
   parties offered condolences to the Tibbetts family, Republicans   
   were more likely to note Mr. Rivera’s immigration status in   
   their statements.   
      
   Image   
   Cristhian Bahena Rivera   
   CreditIowa Department of Public Safety, via Associated Press   
   Outside the state, advocates for immigrants lamented that Ms.   
   Tibbetts’s death was being used for political gains.   
      
   “It is unfortunate that lawmakers are politicizing this   
   absolutely awful tragedy,” said Ali Noorani, executive director   
   of the National Immigration Forum, an advocacy organization.   
   “One would wish that cooler heads would prevail and that we   
   could have a rational, humane conversation about immigration   
   policy.”   
      
   Though statistics show that native-born Americans commit crimes   
   at higher rates than immigrants, Mr. Trump has long pushed a   
   narrative that suggests otherwise.   
      
   The White House regularly sends out emails reporting the latest   
   crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. “Ethiopian human   
   rights abuser arrested for fraudulently obtaining U.S.   
   citizenship,” one such missive announced last week.   
      
   In June, Mr. Trump gathered at the White House a group of so-   
   called “angel families” who had lost loved ones in crimes   
   committed by “criminal illegal aliens” — victims of Salvadoran   
   gangs, heroin overdoses, robbers, convicts released from prison   
   but not deported.   
      
   “These are the stories that Democrats and people that are weak   
   on immigration, they don’t want to discuss, they don’t want to   
   hear, they don’t want to see, they don’t want to talk about,”   
   Mr. Trump said in greeting the families.   
      
   In recent campaign rallies, like one Tuesday night in which he   
   alluded to Ms. Tibbetts, Mr. Trump has riled up crowds by   
   disparaging immigrants and stoking fear about them, saying that   
   he would send them “the hell back” to their countries of origin.   
   And he has constantly reiterated his belief that a vote for a   
   Democratic candidate in the midterms would be a vote for open   
   borders. (Legislation shows that Democrats support border   
   security measures, but not the wall that Mr. Trump has promised   
   his supporters.)   
      
   Mr. Rivera’s arrest also raised questions about the process   
      
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