Donald Trump Jr.

Guest columnist

The reaction from some Democrats and others on the left to the murder of Mollie Tibbetts is as despicable as it is revealing.

The mask is off and the true radical face of the Democrats has been exposed. They are seemingly more concerned with protecting their radical open-borders agenda than the lives of innocent Americans.

When asked about Mollie’s murder, Sen. Elizabeth Warren — who is for some reason considered a leading contender for the Democrats’ 2020 ticket — played down the killing and said the focus should be on the “real problems” of our immigration system, such as the separation of families at our border.

Think about that for a minute. She apparently believes that illegal alien parents being separated from their children is a bigger problem than American parents having to bury theirs.

Editors' note: Here's what Warren said on CNN: “I’m so sorry for the family here, and I know this is hard not only for her family, but for people in her community, the people throughout Iowa. But one of the things we have to remember is we need an immigration system that is effective, that focuses on where real problems are.” In the same interview, speaking about the separation of children from their parents, she said, “I think we need immigration laws that focus on people who pose a real threat and I don’t think mamas and babies are the place we should be spending our resources.”

But at least Warren could muster some semblance of humanity, saying she was "so sorry for the family here.” MSNBC commentator Christina Greer, on the other hand, dismissed Mollie and her tragic story as “a girl in Iowa,” while CNN commentator Symone Sanders tweeted that the murder had nothing at all to do with illegal immigration and everything to do with “toxic masculinity.”

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Liberal media outlets went through great pains to cover the story without actually covering the story. Instead of truthful headlines such as “Illegal immigrant arrested in connection with murder of Mollie Tibbetts,” multiple outlets ran headlines such as “Man arrested in connection to disappearance of Mollie Tibbetts.” They don’t want you to know what happened to her — and they certainly don’t want you to know who is responsible.

Worse still, a number of media outlets and pundits insisted that conservatives and Republicans were “politicizing” Mollie’s murder — an absurd claim coming from the same people who used family separation at the border to call for the abolishment of ICE and jump at the opportunity to exploit any tragedy involving guns to call for the end of the Second Amendment as we know it.

The most ridiculous response came from journalist Chris Riotta, who claimed in the Independent that “Russian bots used Mollie Tibbetts' death to distract from Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort.” Riotta and his ilk simply can’t face the fact that the murder of an innocent girl at the hands of an illegal alien is news that Americans actually care about.

It’s not hard to understand why. The Left is so ideologically committed to open borders that they can’t be honest about the consequences of illegal immigration. If the mainstream media reported objectively about illegal alien crime — not to mention the effects of cheap illegal immigrant labor on the labor market — the wall would have been built years ago and my dad’s policies at the border would be implemented immediately.

Despite what some Democrats may wish in the depths of their hearts, Mollie was murdered by an illegal alien and her murder would never have happened if we policed our southern border properly.

Unfortunately, Mollie was not the first casualty of the left’s love for open borders. The radical policies of the Democrats have left a trail of human wreckage in pursuit of their open borders dream. Yet they continue to act like violent illegal alien crime is a myth concocted by the right, despite the fact that a Washington Times report released in January indicated that 44 percent of people convicted of federal crimes in 2011-2016 were non-citizens.

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Register editorial:Find meaning in Mollie Tibbetts' death in ways that uplift all of Iowa

The murder of Mollie Tibbetts is not a myth. It happened. So did the murders of Kate Steinle, Dominic Durden, Sarah Root, Ronald Da Silva, Grant Ronnebeck, Jamiel Shaw, and countless other innocent Americans sacrificed on the Democrats’ altar of open borders.

Enough is enough. The Democrats are pushing policies that are a direct existential threat to the lives of innocent Americans. If they refuse to abandon the pursuit of open borders, they must be called out and voted out. The memories of those we’ve lost to illegal alien violence deserve nothing less.

Donald Trump Jr. is the executive vice president at The Trump Organization.