Would you believe that someone in the United States illegally would use an alias to get hired? In a development that will shock no one, the Associated Press reported Wednesday that Cristhian Bahena Rivera, accused of stalking and murdering college student Mollie Tibbetts, was hired under and worked under a false name: John Budd.
Man charged in Mollie Tibbetts' death was known by an alias: https://t.co/Wf5qxbzKsv pic.twitter.com/SuO1Bsj8Y0
— ABC 7 News – WJLA (@ABC7News) September 5, 2018
Too bad there weren’t any red flags about this guy. The AP reports:
Farm officials have said Rivera presented an out-of-state photo identification and a Social Security number when he was hired in 2014, and they believed he was the person depicted in those documents until his arrest last month.
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The farm did not use the government’s voluntary E-Verify system, which allows companies to confirm the identity and eligibility of employees to work in the U.S. Farm manager Dane Lang has apologized for a mistake in falsely claiming to have used E-Verify in an initial statement on Rivera’s Aug. 21 arrest, hours after he allegedly led police to Mollie Tibbetts’ body in a nearby cornfield.
So “John Budd” was using fake ID along with being in the country illegally? If it didn’t sound so racist, we’d admit that’s one reason we’re not thrilled that California issued close to a million driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants last year.
"John Budd. The alias has emerged as Cristhian Bahena Rivera's employer, a cattle operation owned by a prominent Republican family, faces questions over whether its managers were aware of any warning signs that he was in the country illegally.”
So many failures in this story https://t.co/BwLikfv5rm
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) September 5, 2018
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Also, note that "prominent Republican family" is probably the only reason why this is even a story
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) September 5, 2018
Yep, it took the AP two whole paragraphs to mention that the farm’s owners are Republicans, even if the political affiliation of Bob Menendez slipped the media’s minds during his trial.
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Bloomberg: Exploitation of Mollie Tibbetts' murder linked to Trump's "racial aggression" https://t.co/ckQR7lh0Cb
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 28, 2018
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