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Mexicans came into the US to fix American highway signs? If anyone fixed the signs it was the San Ysidro CA government or California DoT.
A Mexican can't show up at a US border crossing with illegal goods and say sorry, I made a mistake, I'll just turn around now. Once you've made contact with officials you can't back out. If you could it would make smuggling easy with an 'out'.
Inspections at Mexican customs is random. As you you drive through the stalls you get a random red or green light and if red you get pulled over to an inspection area. If you get a green you can drive through with no questions and your contraband.
This situation is a little different than just "illegal goods". The illegal goods were legal where he came from and he was the legal owner of them and his car was full of a bunch of other stuff too. It was legally owned firearms packed in with his other belongings. A little common sense is in order here. It's not like he was caught with a trunk full of guns with the serial numbers filed off.
There's so many inconsistencies with this story it drives me nuts. Either he had been visiting his girlfriend or visiting a spot that was popular with local marines or he had just gotten lost being new to the area. Either he called 911 immediately upon crossing the border or he waited 40 minutes. Either his lawyer told him to initially lie about not having visited Mexico, or something else happened. Either his court date is June 4th or it's been postponed.
Personally, I don't care if he technically broke a law in Mexico - I'm more along the lines of spirit of the law here. (Is it really true he was about to be allowed to turned around and another officer stopped it? I haven't seen that in the news reports I've read.) Surely Mexico could use the prison cell space for someone else more worthy of it. I can't believe how little compassion some people seem to have. Oh, wait, it's the politics forum. Never mind.
Since the USA is now exchanging terrorists for POWs, perhaps we could trade Tahmooressi for all the illegals currently in US detention centers.
He did not "knowingly" break any laws!
They showed the sign before the Mexicans fixed it, and no one could have seen it.
Many have come forward saying they made the same mistake because the sign was so confusing.
Oh, so he is stupid? Free hint: When you enter a foreign country, you put yourself under their jurisdiction. That includes contraband. And nobody ever talked their way out of an illegal weapons charge with a "Oh, I didn't know they were illegal. So that makes us cool, right?"
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Also, he immediately called 911 to say he made a mistake and had guns - they have played the tape of this.
So what? US authorities have zero jurisdiction.
He did something boneheaded in an area that has a low bonehead tolerance. And that's sad, but that's the way things go.
This situation is a little different than just "illegal goods". The illegal goods were legal where he came from and he was the legal owner of them and his car was full of a bunch of other stuff too. It was legally owned firearms packed in with his other belongings. A little common sense is in order here. It's not like he was caught with a trunk full of guns with the serial numbers filed off.
That is of course why anyone busted arriving from Amsterdam with a bag full of legally-owned marijuana is told by US customs that it's OK, the goods are legal where you come from, so we'll just use common sense.
The illegal goods were legal where he came from and he was the legal owner of them and his car was full of a bunch of other stuff too. It was legally owned firearms packed in with his other belongings. A little common sense is in order here.
I agree that there ought to be common sense exercised, but since when has the bolded clause ever been a defense anywhere? If you fly in with a ton of heroin from NE Burma is that excuse going to keep you out of trouble? Or what about something that wouldn't be considered child pornography in Denmark or Thailand, but is here? Crossing a border actually means something.
He knowingly committed a crime, got caught and tried to escape. I am not condoning the way he is being treated (i.e. stripped naked, chained, beaten), but clearly is not innocent. That's the point.
Isn't the "chaining" pretty much him being hand-cuffed to a hospital bed while being treated for his (self-inflicted) neck injury?
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