Mollie Tibbetts.. Woman of the Year.

She did in death what this country needed:
to acknowledge that illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.

To point out that illegal immigration with no legal sponsors is a bit like plantation slavery: the owners/employers benefit off of paying less for labor (or not mechanizing, as all American farms should be doing...) and the social costs are passed on to others.

I wonder if ICE has visited the Larrabee Farms, owned by the Lang family.
It seems odd to me that these men thought they were employing an American citizen with papers showing he was from here. How many American-raised men don't know how to speak any English?

I hope more media follows up on the employers here.
If they were serving as the defacto sponsors by bringing this man in and employing him, then they bear the blame for his actions too. It must be hard to work 12 hour days, 7 days a week at a farm, living in a mobile trailer on farm property, and still not speak English and be able to assimilate into our shared society.

The killer made a baby with one of Mollie's classmates, but that must have been a drag on the relationship: his being unable to communicate verbally with his co-workers or the mother of his baby. Still, somebody needs to teach men like this, and men like Michael Brown who are really kids in a candy shop: if you can't afford to pay for it, it's not yours to take freely.

Women who care about other women understand this, and will work to enure that no more lives are wasted just to save a few bucks manually milking cows. Midwestern farm employers who knowingly, or by mistake, employ illegal workers: this is just the beginning... Invest your profits in mechanizing labor now. Your illegal workforce will not be permitted to serve as your slaves forever.

The rest of us are unwilling to bear the social costs of your lawbreaking...