Posted on 05/25/2014 10:39:02 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
A U.S. Marine who has been held in a Mexican jail for two months after mistakenly crossing the border with guns could have been spared his continuing ordeal with a simple phone call - and the kind of courtesy American border officials extend to wayward Mexicans, including members of the military.
Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, was trying to visit a friend near the border in San Ysidro March 31 when he missed the last exit on Interstate 5 and inadvertently crossed into Mexico. While his mistake was apparently due in part to a poorly marked - and recently changed - sign marking the last chance to make a U-turn back toward the U.S., some reasonable discretion by border officials could have spared him nearly two months in a Mexican prison, sources told Fox News.
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The Mexicans do this crap on purpose so that they can blackmail the families out of several thousand dollars.
People that know Mexico, know what a disgusting, lazy, corrupt and backwards country it is.
It might seem different for those tourists who fly to Cancun, and resorts, I’ve never seen that artificial atmosphere, but when you are among the real life Mexico, you can instantly see that it is a dark and wicked wicked, and when you look at it’s history, it has always been so.
You’re on the mark. Mordida (bribery) is a way of life in among officialdom in Mexico.
That said, I do like Mexican food.
Regardless of the law, the perception in Mexico is that the United States hates Mexicans. We have a long history of hating Mexicans and trying to take over their country.
But Obama in particular hates Mexico and Mexicans, and has probably been the worst president ever in terms of dealing with Mexico. They have a PRI president now (PRI is the socialist party). So in theory Obama should love him. But he doesn’t, partly because the Mexican president is unexpectedly conservative economically and is privatizing like mad, and partly because Obama hates Latinos in general and Mexicans in particular, outside of the Democrat Party’s electoral needs.
Obama (the product of an African foreign graduate student and a white hippie) politically identifies with ghetto blacks - who appear to be the intellectual arbiters in the “black community” -and hates Latin Americans. And Obama just said today that a weaker foreign policy was the way to go, so why should any country, including Mexico, care what we want?
That said, Obama himself doesn’t respect any laws. And that’s what has gotten Mexico very upset. Also, I have never seen anywhere that Obama went to bat for this Marine. If he had, I’m sure Mexico would have released him.
The Obama regime’s failure to defend this man (arrested for the faux crime of having a gun) is what has resulted in his imprisonment.
FWIW good Mexican food is actually New Mexican food. What they serve in old Mexico is bland and tasteless for the most part.
Kinda symetrical. Both countries, each in its own way, manage to abuse American citizens.
And that was one of the most stupid statements (other than it is the video’s fault) our state department has EVER made
Maybe we could arrange a trade, as in the Middle East. We give them twelve million Mexican citizens in exchange for our one marine.
When did the Mexicans start obeying out laws/ this something new?
Mexicans who enter the US illegally are given money, food, education and a voter registration card.
Americans who enter Mexico illegally are arrested and thrown in prison.
It’s evident even in the resort areas of Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas. You venture beyond the tourist zones at your own risk.
Probably some truth to that. Most of the people I know who don't like Mexican food say it's because they can't tolerate hot, spicy food. In actuality it's mostly very mild but they don't know that because they avoid it like the plague.
New Mexico has great Mexican food, but so does Texas, they are two different styles, and California Mexican is the least flavorful.
Perhaps things have changed since I traveled Mexico extensively in the '60s with my family but their typical dishes didn't resemble what we call Mexican food here in the U.S. Sure, they have tacos, enchiladas etc. but they aren't prepared and don't taste the same.
I watched a Bull fight in 1950s Monterrey Mexico as a young lad, between the bull fights and the grotesque looking starving dogs with their ribs showing and terrified of all humans, the broken glass lining the tops of the walls around houses that also had bars on the windows, and the begging street urchins and paying the layabout men to “watch” your car when you parked at the curb, and the bar length urinal that was also the foot rest as you leaned on the bar to drink a beer in full sight of everyone as you could pee without moving or setting down your drink, and my travel through tiny remote 1950s villages, the casual bribing of federal and local law enforcement, and near death experiences and narrow escapes through the 60s and 70s and 80s, from both bad guys and law enforcement, I know Mexico well enough to know how ugly it is, in every way, in regards to it’s people and what they create.
Mexico has always been a failure, a place of passivity and sudden mindless violence, twisted and misdirected passions and dishonesty and apathy, a disastrous pit of human failings, all while bordering on the greatest, freest, most independent minded nation ever created.
I don’t know where you get your information, but it isn’t accurate. What did you do, visit those American hate museums in Mexico, financed by the Russian government?
The Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain (Colonial government) used to patrol “their” claims in what is now Georgia and South Carolina during the late 1500s and early 1600s. If they found any settlers who were not Spanish, such as French Huguenots, the entire settlement was offered a chance to convert to Roman Catholicism and when rejected, everyone was murdered. That included women and children.
You don’t believe the Mexicans felt the same? There were problems with Mexican officials in the late 1700s and early 1800s who demanded bribes from American traders, and other irregularities such as seizing American ships and keeping their cargoes (and occasionally murdering crews).
The Mexican government, which had recently freed itself from Spanish control, was viewed by American officials as “dysfunctional”. They had looked upon the situation in the period post 1812, considered going to war against Mexico and rejected the idea. There was no ‘hate’ against Mexico.
Settlers from Mexico could not be enticed into Texas, so the new Mexican government offered land to Americans willing to come to Texas as settlers. Converting to Roman Catholicism was mandatory, and many took the offer.
The reason Texans, both of Mexican and American origin, decided to revolt was due to when Santa Ana suspended the 1824 Republican Constitution in order to establish a highly centralized government. Civil war spread across the country, and three new governments declared independence: the Republic of Texas, the Republic of the Rio Grande and the Republic of Yucatán.
It would be 15+ years before Texas joined the United States, and the arguments in Congress were ferocious by the varied political parties.
Mexico was a political mess, always in revolt and debt. They settled some international charges by foreign governments by offering land in North America. That is how the U.S. came to the realization that Mexico couldn’t manage California and New Mexico. Mexico couldn’t provided enough troops to protect their people from marauding Indians.
In the 1780s Mexico was a large and populous colonial nation that had far greater resources that the puny 13 United States with a population of about three million. Forty years later it would be quite different, which just demonstrates how inefficient a highly centralized government with a stratified society based on the Spanish Viceroyalty was compared with the free-wheeling United States of America.
No, livius, it was the Mexicans who hated the successful United States, not the other way around.
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