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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: DLR Pyro on May 21, 2014, 05:31:22 PM
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TIJUANA, Mexico – A Marine veteran jailed in Mexico on weapons charges for allegedly bringing guns across the border said he never intended to leave the country but missed an exit when heading to meet friends in a border town.
Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, said he was headed to dinner in San Ysidro on March 31 when he mistakenly wound up at a border crossing point in Tijuana, U-T San Diego reported Sunday.
"I was going to call them after I drove off the exit, but I never got off the exit, I blew right past it," he told the newspaper in an interview from jail. "I wasn't paying attention, thinking I had way farther to go. I ended up in Mexico with no way to turn around."
He said Mexican authorities found three guns inside the truck he had recently driven from Florida to make a new start in San Diego. He was jailed, and is now being held in Tijuana's La Mesa Penitentiary without bail.
Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter last week wrote a letter asking Secretary of State John Kerry to secure Tahmooressi's release. State Department officials said they were aware of an arrest of a U.S. citizen in Mexico, but they do not comment on arrests of private individuals without the person's permission...
...If Tahmooressi is convicted, he faces six to 21 years in a Mexican prison, his lawyers said, adding that alternatively the case could be dropped if the Mexican attorney general's office in Mexico City requests dismissal.
Tahmooressi served four years in the Marines, including two tours in Afghanistan. He says he was honorably discharged in November 2012.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/05/04/sgt-andrew-tahmooressi-held-in-mexico-said-never-intended-to-leave-us/ (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/05/04/sgt-andrew-tahmooressi-held-in-mexico-said-never-intended-to-leave-us/)
It appears that since obama is bending over backwards to free tens of thousands of mexican illegals with criminal histories from U.S. jails he doesn't have time to address this problem of a U.S. war hero whose only crime was he missed the last turnoff before stumbling into mexico.
This has me madder than hell. :mad:
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The Marine should apply for a Mexican tax refund, some Mexican foodstamps and any other Mexican government freebies he can think of....hell, it's the least we do for Mexican visitors.
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My wife wants to visit Mexico (The Westin Lagunamar Ocean Resort), I say NO WAY ! :mad:
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My wife wants to visit Mexico (The Westin Lagunamar Ocean Resort), I say NO WAY ! :mad:
Good idea. stay home and spend your dollars in this Country instead of some 3rd world shitbox that doesn't respect our sovereignty.
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I say we start treating the illegals the way they are treating our American's.
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My wife wants to visit Mexico (The Westin Lagunamar Ocean Resort), I say NO WAY ! :mad:
No way I'd go to Mexico until they get their gang problem under control. There was a reason Obama sent a platoon with his daughter and her friends on spring break last year.
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I say we start treating the illegals the way they are treating our American's.
Agreed.
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WATCH: Mother of Marine Jailed in Mexico Has a Message for Barack Obama [VIDEO]
http://conservativetribune.com/mother-of-jailed-marine/
How about we exchange all the illegals for Andrew Tahmooressi. Obama is truly a lame duck.