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Mexican cooperation could have spared Marine from ordeal, say border sources

1750Texan said:
That is an awesome Idea. Lets allocate millions upon millions of dollars to deport millions of illegal aliens for one person in a Mexican jail.

Better yet. Lets do the deporting and leave him there.
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And then have Obama trade for five Mexican gang leaders through his 'no man left behind' program.
 
Grant said:
And then have Obama trade for five Mexican gang leaders through his 'no man left behind' program.
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A move I would have to also disagree with.
 
Grant said:
And then have Obama trade for five Mexican gang leaders through his 'no man left behind' program.
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Do you think I have some special influnece on Obama?

Your boy is screwed. He is no different than any other American serving time in foreign prison. Life is a bitch sometimes.
 
1750Texan said:
Do you think I have some special influnece on Obama?

Your boy is screwed. He is no different than any other American serving time in foreign prison. Life is a bitch sometimes.
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I think people are too caught up in the fact that he is a Marine.

Members of the military aren't entitled to any different special treatment when they go breaking laws in foreign countries and have to endure pre-trial confinement.
 
1750Texan said:
Do you think I have some special influnece on Obama?
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Perhaps you can write a letter telling BHO that you voted for him twice and want him to mention that his fellow American should be freed, just like he released the Taliban terrorists.

Your boy is screwed. He is no different than any other American serving time in foreign prison. Life is a bitch sometimes.
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And it seems Americans want to make it even bitchier for themselves.
 
Caine said:
You entirely missed the point of my post. It was not about trying to tie this into an immigration issue... because this isn't about immigration.

It was about the fact that he is being held in pre-trial confinement and it is blowing peoples minds because they don't understand WTF pre-trial confinement is.

As for mistakenly.... who are you to say for certain he did in fact "mistakenly" enter Mexico? And, for that matter, why are you ignoring the fact he brought weapons across the border when he was not allowed to do that.

The weapons are what got him in trouble... not just crossing the border... whether purposefully or "mistakenly".
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I didn't miss your point, and whether or not you want this to tie into the immigration issue here, too bad. The optics of this couldn't be worse for Mexico. We are constantly lectured by Mexico how we must show compassion for those Mexican citizens that break our laws and come here, yet when one American makes a mistake, he is not just jailed, but put in prison, and beaten.

As for that mistake of crossing the border in the first place, "who am I"? Who are you to say it didn't happen the way he says? Do you have ONE shred of evidence that he was intentionally trying to break their laws? I don't think you do. The weapons he had were legal in the US, where he says he never meant to take them, or himself into Mexico, and even told the Mexican border authorities that they could confiscate them if they would just allow him to return to the US.

Yep, those weapons are the evil here...legally owned weapons....I am confident that any rational person doesn't believe that this is grounds for beatings, and death threats....Maybe you think that kind of behavior is warranted, but I don't.
 
Caine said:
I think people are too caught up in the fact that he is a Marine.

Members of the military aren't entitled to any different special treatment when they go breaking laws in foreign countries and have to endure pre-trial confinement.
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It seems that the US should be holding about 12 million Mexicans in pre-trial confinement also. They shouldn't get any special treatment when they break the law.
 
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