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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 25 July 2018

FBI joins hunt for missing

University of Iowa student

BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — little to go on, but they're her jog.
State and federal agents "leaning more and more She was reported missing
are investigating the disap- toward something hap- Thursday when she didn't
pearance of a 20-year-old pening to her against her show up for work.
University of Iowa student will." Mortvedt said FBI and Iowa
who has been missing for Television station KCRG re- investigators are concen-
nearly a week from her ported Tibbetts was staying trating on areas around
hometown in eastern Iowa. at her boyfriend's home at Brooklyn that Tibbetts has
Volunteer searches for Mol- the time of her disappear- known to have gone to in
lie Tibbetts, of Brooklyn, ance. She was there to the past.
were called off this week as watch his dogs because The FBI is also using an ar-
the FBI and state investiga- he had a construction job ray of computer forensics
tors took over, Iowa Division about 100 miles northeast — such as studying online
of Criminal Investigation in Dubuque. A neighbor re- history and cellphone app
spokesman Mitch Mortvedt ported seeing Tibbetts go- usage — in an effort to pin-
said Tuesday. ing for a jog last Wednes- point where she might be,
"We're still asking for the day evening. he said.
public's help," Mortvedt The boyfriend, Dalton Jack, "This could shake out a
said. "We'd like to get any told the station he received bunch of different ways," This undated photo released by the Iowa Department of Crimi-
information we can. The a Snapchat photo from Mortvedt said. "We are nal Investigation shows Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa
more eyes and ears we Tibbetts late Wednesday hoping and praying for the student who was reported missing from her hometown in the
have, the better." night, after she would have best outcome."q eastern Iowa city of Brooklyn on Thursday, July 19, 2018.
Mortvedt said officials have returned to the home from Associated Press

Judge questions state of

justice for pizza-worker

immigrant

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge asked Tuesday if the
U.S. government has "any concept of justice" in mind as
he questioned the need to deport an Ecuadorean immi-
grant detained while delivering pizza to a Brooklyn Army
installation and now kept apart from his American wife
and two young children.
Judge Paul A. Crotty put a government lawyer on the
spot as he heard legal arguments over whether a court
in New Jersey or New York should help decide the fate
of Pablo Villavicencio, who failed to obey a 2010 depor-
tation order before marrying a U.S. citizen and making a
life in America.
He did not immediately rule, but he questioned the mo-
tivations behind the government's decisions to put Vil-
lavicencio, 35, on the brink of expulsion.
"Well, the powerful are doing what they want, and the
poor are suffering what they must," Crotty said after
hearing Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Cordaro defend
the government's actions.
"I mean, is there any concept of justice here or are we
just doing this because we want to?" the judge asked.
"Why do we want to enforce the order? It makes no dif-
ference in terms of the larger issues facing the country."q