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Farm that hired illegal alien Cristhian Rivera, Mollie Tibbetts' killer, did not use E-Verify system, official says

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The Mexican national accused of murdering college student Mollie 
Tibbetts in Iowa last month lived in the United States illegally 
for several years -- and worked for a farm that used Social 
Security Administration data in part to vet potential employees, 
according to officials there.

However, Yarrabee Farms co-owner and manager Dane Lang clarified 
Wednesday afternoon that the farm did not use a federal E-Verify 
check on suspect Cristhian Rivera, despite the company's claim 
earlier in the day that it did.

Lang said Rivera provided a state-issued photo identification 
and social security card. “We learned that our employee was not 
who he said he is.”

Jackie Ibanez has the latest details on the case.
Rivera, 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder 
Tuesday after the body of Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of 
Iowa student, was discovered in a cornfield about 12 miles 
southeast of Brooklyn, where she was last seen running. Police 
said Rivera was in the country illegally and an immigration 
detainer was placed on him after his arrest.

Yarrabee Farms told reporters Rivera worked at the farm for four 
years.

Lang said earlier that all documents regarding Rivera’s 
employment have been turned over to authorities. Yarrabee Farms 
is owned by the family of Craig Lang, the former president of 
the Iowa Farm Bureau and a former GOP primary candidate to be 
Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services told Fox 
News: "A search of records by USCIS revealed Rivera did not make 
any DACA requests nor were any grants given. We have found no 
record in our systems indicating he has any lawful immigration 
status." DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was 
instituted during the Obama administration and allows some 
immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to remain 
in the country.

Investigators have said he arrived to the U.S. illegally from 
Mexico at some point between 4 and 7 years ago.

Cristhian Rivera is charged with murder of 20-year-old Iowa 
student Mollie Tibbetts.
A search of Iowa court records revealed no prior criminal 
history for Rivera, and it's unclear whether he'd ever been 
subject to prior deportation proceedings.

Identity fraud is the most common way illegal immigrants and 
"unscrupulous employers" try to thwart the system, said Jessica 
Vaughan, the director of policy studies for the Center for 
Immigration Studies.

While the details regarding how Rivera may have gamed the system 
remain unclear, Vaughan said many of the cases prosecuted in the 
past have seen an illegal immigrant simply purchase fraudulent 
identities.

“There have been cases of inmates selling their identities 
because they are incarcerated and don’t need them,” she said.

In one Massachusetts case, a hiring manager actually had an 
agreement with an identity vendor across the street who would 
help any illegal immigrant receive an identity that would pass 
muster, Vaughan said.

“They would send them across the street and tell them to come 
back later,” she said.

Rivera’s arrival to the U.S. as a teenager has also raised 
questions about if he may have been a so-called “Dreamer,” who 
may have qualified for the Obama administration's Deferred 
Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Vaughan, however, said it is unlikely because to qualify for 
DACA, an illegal immigrant child must have lived in the U.S. for 
at least five years before 2012. If Rivera arrived in 2011 – the 
earliest officials believed he could have crossed the border 
from Mexico – he would not have fit the criteria.

USCIS officials have not confirmed any possible DACA status for 
Rivera.

“There are a lot of layers to peel off,” Vaughan said.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/22/mollie-tibbetts-murder-
suspect-illegal-immigrant-cristhian-rivera-allegedly-passed-e-
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