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Senator Rose Ros-Lehtinen has been instrumental in getting his release. It also did not hurt that Bill O'Reilly has been encouraging a boycott on travel to Mexico and Mexican goods.
Funny how Obama had to call Sandra Fluke to sympathize with her being called a four letter word, but he apparently had no problems letting a veteran rot in a foreign jail for months.
Don't break foreign laws and you wont end up in foreign jail, marine or not.
When you unknowingly break a law and victimized nobody and had a good reason for what you were doing and tried to do the right thing at the border and the foreign nation you are in is an ally who receives huge amounts of American aid, I would think they could expedite getting you released. It's not quite as simple as just "do the crime, do the time".
He did everything the U.S. Customs officials told him to do.
He broke a Mexican law, what US Customs told him means nothing.
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