{"id":17528,"date":"2018-08-23T14:59:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T18:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17528"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:07:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:07:41","slug":"a-crying-toddler-can-be-politicized-but-not-a-murdered-20-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/08\/23\/a-crying-toddler-can-be-politicized-but-not-a-murdered-20-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crying Toddler Can Be Politicized, But Not a Murdered 20-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the moment that it was revealed that Mollie Tibbetts had been murdered and that her alleged killer was an illegal alien, the illegal alien advocacy network was ready to respond with the precision of a tactical strike force. From libertarian Cato Institute<\/a> on the right to the National Immigration Forum<\/a> on the far left, came preemptive warnings that Ms. Tibbetts\u2019 murder should not be politicized by those who think it might be a good idea to stop illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

These are the same people who politicized a photo of crying toddler at the border<\/a> a few months ago who had been separated from her mother for all of about 60 seconds. Or who accused the Border Patrol of keeping kids in cages by recycling photos from 2014<\/a>, when the Obama administration was briefly holding minors separately from other illegal border crossers for their own protection.<\/p>\n

And then there are those who believe that the murder of a 20-year-old college student is just a distraction and we shouldn\u2019t really pay it any mind. Among those in that camp is Senator Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), a likely contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. In response to question posed to her on CNN<\/a> about whether Ms. Tibbetts\u2019 murder, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien, was cause for concern, Sen. Warren offered her perfunctory condolences to the Tibbetts family before getting to the \u201creal problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201creal problems\u201d are not the snuffed out lives of Mollie Tibbetts, Kate Steinle, Sarah Root, or countless others who have been murdered, maimed, or assaulted by illegal aliens our government failed to keep out, or who were protected by sanctuary policies. No, the \u201creal problems,\u201d in Sen. Warren\u2019s estimation, stem from the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to enforce our immigration laws. \u201cLast month, I went down to the border and I saw where children had been taken away from their mothers, I met with their mothers who had been lied to, who didn\u2019t know where their children were, who haven\u2019t had a chance to talk to their children, and there was no plan for how they would be reunified with their children.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we need immigration laws that focus on people who pose a real threat and I don\u2019t think mamas and babies are the place we should be spending our resources. Separating a mama from a baby does not make this country safer,\u201d the senator opined.<\/p>\n

It should be superfluous to point out to a United States Senator that Mollie Tibbetts\u2019 \u201cmama\u201d is now permanently separated from her daughter with no hope of ever being reunified, and that there is a \u201creal threat\u201d that other families will be victimized by criminal aliens who easily slip across the border Sen. Warren visited. But, apparently not.