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Old 06-23-2018, 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by TigerLily24 View Post
Exactly.
Didn’t that veteran who was held in Mexico on gun charges claim that he had taken a wrong turn on the highway, where there are signs?
And didn’t lots of people defend his “mistake?”

The young woman should be given the same benefit of the doubt.
Particularly since the area isn’t clearly marked.
Yeah, two weeks in a us facility vs nearly two years in a Mexican hole.. ok Perhaps he wasn’t brown enough for the left to give a rats ass
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Old 06-23-2018, 08:11 AM
 
Location: El paso,tx
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Stop the presses, I agree with you!

The border is not clearly marked there, and everyone who is being so hard on this young woman should stop for a moment and think about it. It's pretty easy to make a mistake like this. Ever take a wrong turn while driving in an unfamiliar place, and end up somewhere you didn't intend to go? It seems like it would have been quite simple to verify her story without all this mess.
A soldier did at the Mexican border and ended up in a Mexican prison for quite a long time until trump got him out. Obama did nothing.
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Old 06-23-2018, 08:16 AM
 
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I did not read the article so I have no idea what race she is. Still don't. I stand by my comment. She had no ID. She has to be identified. Her not being white does not exempt her from the law.

Where in the law does it say she has to be imprisoned for two weeks? It was an overzealous and irresponsible response by U.S. officials. She should have been held for no more than 3 or 4 hours, once they ascertained she's a French woman out for a jog and she crossed an unmarked border.

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Old 06-23-2018, 08:19 AM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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According to the article, she was held in US custody because her mother couldn’t prove that she belonged in Canada either. In other words, both countries treated her like the hot potato her irresponsibility made her into.

The girl and her mother are as dumb as the stumps that dot the beach she was caught on.
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Old 06-23-2018, 08:21 AM
 
Location: Denver CO
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Yeah, two weeks in a us facility vs nearly two years in a Mexican hole.. ok Perhaps he wasn’t brown enough for the left to give a rats ass
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A soldier did at the Mexican border and ended up in a Mexican prison for quite a long time until trump got him out. Obama did nothing.
Wrong and wrong.

Trump was President in 2014? Nope. That's when Mr. Tahmooressi spent his 7 months (not nearly 2 years) in a Mexican jail. He was released October 31, 2014. Trump tweeted, that's it, and the family spokesman said that they felt the tweets may have actually delayed his release.

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“The wave of anti-Mexico populism that sprung up on the U.S. side of the border over this case was very much not helpful. Whether it actually prolonged his confinement is unknowable,” said Jonathan Franks, who worked as the Tahmooressi family spokesman during the ordeal. “Getting people fired up for the sake of it isn’t strategically effective—one needs to get people fired up around a message that furthers the goal—those finer points of strategic communications seem utterly lost on Trump.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-do...iled-in-mexico

And he wasn't arrested for inadvertently crossing the border, he was arrested for illegally bringing guns into Mexico.
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Old 06-23-2018, 08:22 AM
 
Location: Florida
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When did we become Iran?

I cannot believe there are people defending this type of fascist treatment in the USA as ok.

The US can now be added to one of 'those' countries in Locked Up Abroad--the creepy kind you don't want do accidentally do something wrong.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...border-mexico/
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Old 06-23-2018, 08:24 AM
 
Location: Home, Home on the Front Range
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Yeah, two weeks in a us facility vs nearly two years in a Mexican hole.. ok Perhaps he wasn’t brown enough for the left to give a rats ass
Oh, stop it.
Y’all were defending him from Day 1.

Because those enormous signs on the highway were just not clear enough or something.

And because guns.


This young woman was jogging and was carrying nothing.
Yeah, a real security threat there.

I have a no issue with border patrol detaining her long enough to prove identity.
But two weeks?

Ridiculous.
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Old 06-23-2018, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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When did we become Iran?

I cannot believe there are people defending this type of fascist treatment in the USA as ok.

The US can now be added to one of 'those' countries in Locked Up Abroad--the creepy kind you don't want do accidentally do something wrong.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...border-mexico/
What is fascism and how does it relate to what happened here?
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Old 06-23-2018, 08:28 AM
 
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What is fascism and how does it relate to what happened here?
Good question, that these people are unable to answer! As usual, they hear a term being used by Rachel Maddow and simply repeat the talking points. The kicker is that they think of themselves as 'thinkers', when in fact, there is very little thinking going on.
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Old 06-23-2018, 08:28 AM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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What evidence is there that she is "French?" They threw that in there to break the narrative. My mother would produce my papers in an hour, unless I didn't have any. There is a LOT that we don't know.
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