At the time that Mollie Tibbets was stabbed to death and left in a cornfield near her home in Brooklyn, Iowa, the state had a Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, and two Republican senators. All three spoke out regarding the tragedy. In a statement the governor made at the time, she referenced the murder. In it, she also mentioned how “a broken immigration system allowed a predator like this to live in our community,” per the official website of the Iowa governor’s office. Similar comments were also made by Iowa’s two GOP senators.
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Referring to the pushback she received regarding that statement, Reynolds said it wasn’t about politicizing the issue but about policy, as the Des Moines Register goes on to report. At that point, President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr. also wrote a column in the Des Moines Register referring to Tibbetts and hard-line immigration reform. For his part, then President Trump mentioned the murder and Rivera’s conviction at his rallies, as TIME explains, and the official White House Twitter account issued a tweet about it, per Vox.
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