# Mollie Tibbetts missing college student (allegedly) killed by illegal alien **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 22, 2018, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mollie-tibbetts-missing-college-student-allegedly-killed-by-illegal-alien/820030 "2018-08-22T06:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mollie-tibbetts-missing-college-student-allegedly-killed-by-illegal-alien/820030/2 "2018-08-22T06:55:03Z")
Well, as I’ve pointed out before > [@Will the pro amnesty and sanctuary city movements hurt democrats?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-pro-amnesty-and-sanctuary-city-movements-hurt-democrats/810956/51): > > . . .The Idea that a crime committed by an undocumented immigrant is a crime that wouldn’t have happened if that immigrant was not here, is not born out by any data. Cities of equal size and equal economic status have an equal number of major crimes, regardless of their population demographic. That specific person wouldn’t have hurt you, it’s true, but someone else, native or other, would have hurt some other victim. You may feel better by having that person deported, but it does nothing for the overall crime rate. > > The tack that many use - that doing more to prevent illegal immigration and doing more to deport the undocumented, would reduce crime is just wrong. And wanting to punish an entire ethnic community for the actions of it’s criminals can be seen as racist. > > mc but, I agree that this could well play into the narrative that the border needs a wall. Because most people only crimes one at a time and fail to see that if it wasn’t this girl killed by this man, it would’ve been some other girl by some other man. mc --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mollie-tibbetts-missing-college-student-allegedly-killed-by-illegal-alien/820030)._