Re: Mollie Tibbetts, R.I.P.

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But But Sanctuary Cities! Blue Wave! Obama Democrats Murdering Americans! kirjutas pühapäev, 24. november 2019 kl 12:50:02 UTC+2:
> The role of immigration policy failures 
> How responsible is immigration policy for Mollie Tibbetts’s 
> murder? 
> 
> The chief culprit, obviously, is the murderer himself, Mexican 
> illegal alien Cristhian Rivera (if that’s even his real name). 
> But immigration control is one of the elemental responsibilities 
> of the national government, and it failed in this case. As 
> Senator Tom Cotton put it: “Mollie would be alive if our 
> government had taken immigration enforcement seriously years 
> ago.” 
> 
> But there are different levels of culpability. The government 
> bears the greatest share of blame when the authorities have an 
> illegal alien in custody, they know he’s deportable, they 
> release him anyway, and he goes on to commit more crimes. For 
> example, it’s not too much to say that the elected and appointed 
> officials of San Francisco were accomplices in the deaths of 
> Kate Steinle and the Bologna family because of that city’s 
> sanctuary policies. 
> 
> The least share of responsibility would accrue to our 
> immigration policies if an alien managed to infiltrate the 
> country undetected and then had no interactions with government 
> or any other institutions of our society before committing his 
> crime. Given how unserious we are about immigration enforcement, 
> our policies would still warrant a share of the blame, but the 
> responsibility would be more diffuse and indirect. 
> 
> The Tibbetts murder falls somewhere in between. Unlike the 
> killers of Steinle, the Bolognas, Menachem Stark, Jamiel Shaw 
> II, Drew Rosenberg, Grant Ronnebeck, Reginald Destin, and 
> others, Tibbetts’s killer was not shielded by a sanctuary 
> jurisdiction and is not believed to have been previously 
> arrested and released (though we may learn more in the coming 
> days). 
> 
> On the other hand, Tibbetts’s killer is reported to have lived 
> in the United States for seven years, from age 17, and worked at 
> an Iowa dairy farm for four of those years. He worked on the 
> books, having used a stolen identity to get past the Social 
> Security–number check (not E-Verify) used by his employer. His 
> lawyer said that the killer “diligently filed tax returns 
> legally with the IRS.” He had a car registered in someone else’s 
> name and managed to drive for years without a license. He had a 
> child with a high-school classmate of Tibbetts’s, meaning he was 
> presumably listed as the father on the birth certificate. 
> 
> That’s a lot of interaction with our institutions. That an 
> illegal alien can do all that — for years — without raising a 
> red flag represents a profound failure of policy. For instance: 
> He used someone else’s identity to get the dairy-farm job — was 
> the rightful owner of that identity notified when his Social 
> Security number was used to check employment eligibility? If I 
> make a change online to my bank account, I receive an email 
> notifying me of the change so that if it was done improperly I 
> can alert the bank. There is no such notification for the use of 
> our most important personal identifiers, and the Social Security 
> Administration resists the very suggestion of coordination with 
> the immigration authorities to identify illegal aliens in the 
> work force. 
> 
> The killer filed tax returns, presumably using the stolen 
> identity. Was the victim of this identity theft notified that 
> another tax return was being filed in his name? Again, no — the 
> IRS refuses cooperation with the Department of Homeland 
> Security, even when it knows the filer is an illegal alien (as 
> when a filer provides an Individual Taxpayer Identification 
> Number on the tax return but has a different, stolen number on 
> the W-2 form). 
> 
> Given that he had a steady, on-the-books job, the killer 
> probably had a bank account. Banks have to comply with a variety 
> of federal “know your customer” regulations, but verifying the 
> authenticity of the killer’s documents (reportedly including an 
> out-of-state non-driver ID) apparently was not one of them. 
> 
> None of these gaps that allowed Mollie Tibbetts’s killer to live 
> here illegally for years is the fault of a lazy bureaucrat or an 
> inattentive police officer. They are the result of policy 
> choices that weaken our immigration security and enable someone 
> like the killer to remain here with impunity. 
> 
> Some fixes: 
> 
> • I’m not a wall enthusiast, but it remains too easy to 
> surreptitiously cross the border with Mexico. Just this week a 
> caravan of 128 Mexicans and Central Americans, including young 
> children, crossed en masse in Arizona because the border was 
> marked only with three-foot-high vehicle barriers designed to 
> stop cars but not people. 
> 
> • Require systematic, built-in, ongoing cooperation between DHS, 
> SSA, and IRS. There is no excuse for one hand of the federal 
> government not knowing — not being allowed to know — what the 
> other is doing. 
> 
> • Mandate E-Verify for all new hires. To root out identity 
> theft, the E-Verify bill in the House would require that people 
> be notified when their Social Security number was used for 
> employment. 
> 
> • Require as a condition of receiving federal highway funds that 
> all state DMVs participate in E-Verify’s RIDE program, which 
> authenticates driver’s licenses or non-driver state IDs 
> presented for employment. 
> 
> As David French noted yesterday, “While no border can be 
> perfectly guarded, we can do better. We simply choose not to.” 
> That choice probably cost a young girl her life. And that’s our 
> fault. 
> 
> https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/mollie-tibbetts- 
> immigration-reform/