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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump used her slain daughter to rail against illegal immigration. She chose a different path.
Trump used her slain daughter to rail against illegal immigration. She chose a different path.
By Terrence McCoy
December 28
BROOKLYN, Iowa The letters began immediately. Dozens at first, then hundreds, each day bringing more: from a Texas man telling her this was why we needed to build the wall. From a New York television producer asking for an interview. From an elderly woman despairing this divided America in which we now live. Nearly every day since her daughters body was found, she had opened the mailbox, then sat and read them, because that was her routine, that was how she tried to make sense of something so senseless. But now the mailbox was empty for the first time, and she had a new routine.
Laura Calderwood, whose daughter, Mollie Tibbetts, 20, was allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant and left to rot in a cornfield this past summer, closed the mailbox, walked up the steps to her house and turned on the stove. It was getting on toward 6, and she needed to get dinner going. The boys would be hungry.
There were two inside the house now. One was her son, Mollies younger brother, a high school senior named Scott. And the other was his friend, a courteous teenager named Ulises Felix. He was the child of Mexican immigrants. For years, his parents had lived and worked beside her daughters alleged killer at the same dairy farm on the other side of town, which they fled after the mans arrest, leaving behind not only Brooklyn, but also Ulises, their 17-year-old son. Hed wanted to finish high school in the only town hed ever known, and soon, remarkably, he had a new home the home of Mollie Tibbetts where Laura had promised to look after him in his parents absence.
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Trump used her slain daughter to rail against illegal immigration. She chose a different path. (Original Post)
babylonsister
Dec 2018
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Amazing story.
Laura is an amazing woman. Kudos to her and her family. This is what love and compassion looks like. Something that Trump and some and his followers will never understand.