ForReal, it looks illegal/legal has not determined totally yet.
Lawyer: Mollie Tibbetts murder suspect is not an illegal immigrant
By Tamar Lapin and Laura Italiano
August 22, 2018 | 4:14pm | Updated
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Trump’s statement prompted Rivera’s defense lawyer to seemingly mock the president in a court filing seeking a media gag.
“Sad and sorry Trump has weighed in on this matter in national media which will poison the entire possible pool of jury members,” the lawyer, Allan Richards, wrote.
Richards is also claiming that Rivera is a legal immigrant who came to the United States as a minor and who has only a seventh- or eighth-grade education.
Rivera had been in good standing as an employee, Yarrabee Farms President Eric Lang told The Associated Press — adding that the suspect even passed an extra layer of vetting, through the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify system, which cross-referenced his ID with DHS and Social Security records.
Lang the brother of Craig Lang, a farmer who recently lost the 2018 Republican primary for state agriculture secretary.
Not that the status of one immigrant/refugee who may have committed a crime, even as serious as murder, should be seen as a significant factor in the larger contest of any immigration debate. In context, even if it gives a cretin president crotchy-like feel-good tingles, out of so many obviously means nothing.