Only three months ago, 24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera appeared before a District Judge in the Poweshiek County Courthouse in Iowa and was charged with murdering 20-year-0ld Mollie Tibbetts.

The murdered 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student, was missing for five weeks before Rivera led investigators to her body and confessed to her murder. He later plead “not guilty” to her death.

Today, Breitbart News is reporting that the father of a teenage girl is speaking out after his daughter was allegedly murdered at the hands of an illegal alien who entered the United States as an “unaccompanied alien child.”

Ed Wells spoke to CBS New York following the first day in court since his daughter, 16-year-old Madison Wells, was allegedly murdered by 20-year-old illegal alien Bryan Cordero-Castro in September.

“I had a conversation with him when I first met him … what I actually told him, if he had ever hurt my baby girl what I would do to him,” Wells told CBS New York.

“He stabbed her to death, and then ran like a coward,” Well said.

This week, Cordero-Castro appeared in court for the first time, where prosecutors accused him of murdering Madison Wells after she broke off their ten-month relationship, as Breitbart News reported.

If Cordero-Castro is found guilty of first degree murder, he will likely spend the rest of his life in an American prison, where American taxpayers will foot the bill. Besides the unimagineable loss of life of a beautiful young American girl, what is the cost to the American taxpayer of illegal alien criminals who commit viollent crimes in the United States?

The Hill reports – According to research and statistics by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, U.S. taxpayers are footing an annual bill of nearly $19 million a day to house and care for an estimated 300,000 to 450,000 convicted criminal immigrants who are eligible for deportation and are currently residing in local jails and state and federal prisons across the country.

These figures include not only those immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, but all immigrants here who commit and have been convicted of crimes. Other accounting estimates indicate that the total cost for all corrections, medical and support services for adults and juvenile immigrant criminals nationally to be over $1.8 billion dollars.

So the next time you hear some Open Borders politician or pro illegal immigrant surrogates advocate on their behalf, ask yourself why we as American citizens need to bear the increasing costs of violence, victimization and burdensome taxes in subsidizing illegal immigrant criminals who shouldn’t be in our country in the first place.