Last July, Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old college student from Iowa disappeared after going for a run. When her body was found and authorities announced the suspect was in the country illegally, certain media and politicians began to use her death to make a case for stricter immigration laws, just weeks from the midterm elections. Latino USA takes a look into Mollie’s death and revisits the myth of the “criminal immigrant.”
Also, gossip writer Perez Hilton, Chinese migrants in Mexico and a Latina mountaineer.