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rivera worked on a farm and undocumented immigrant from mexico. tibbets father against using that case in immigration debates that that would go against what her daughter would have wanted. as far as the family of the university of iowa student, the prosecution says that all of all of these years, pleased and relief with this verdict. alicia. alicia: alex hogan in new york. thank you. meanwhile violent crime is surging america s biggest cities with this shootout playing out in broad daylight in new york s city upper west side on tuesday, look at that. joining us now with more on this, attorney in north western adjunct professor andrew, thank you so much for being here. i have to put up so many numbers here. homicide spikes across american cities, largest cities, the numbers i had to look at them a couple of times, portland
joe biden could not find one extra dollar for homeland security and clearly abandoned the southern border. jon: congressman jason smith republican from missouri, thank you. yankee jon. have a great evening. jon: you two. it was a brutal killing and raises new questions about illegal immigration. now a juror in the molly tibbets murder trial is speaking out after convicting farmworker christian rivera killing the iowa college student. alex hoeven is following this controversial case for us. it s a the jury only seven hours to reach a guilty verdict. one of the jurors spoke with fox news about how emotional it was and how were they how were the key is that it s over. 26 joe christian rivera will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing 20-year-old molly tibbets. the farm labor arrived illegally
quite emotional for them. we kind of talked everything out and just made that we were all on the same page because something obviously like this or anything else you want to have 100% commitment and know for sure that this was the case. rivera is charged with abducting and stabbing molly tibbets in 2018. the 20-year-old college student was out or evening run, the last time she would ever be seen. police found body in corn field. in an interview rivera told police he followed her and the bigger moments to have trial, rivera himself took the stand claiming that two men took him hostage, killed tibbets and left her in his truck. something clearly the jury did not believe. the prosecution say there was too much evidence against him. and the big thing that he knew where the body was and that was a big piece of the corroboration to his story.