Posted on 06/23/2014 9:57:48 AM PDT by don-o
Two Republican lawmakers visited a Marine sergeant held in a Mexican jail Saturday, with one of them saying that the serviceman "needs to come home."
Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., and Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., visited Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi at the El Hongo II prison in Tecate, Mexico. Tahmooressi has been held there since March on gun charges after he accidentally crossed over the Mexican border with three legally purchased guns in his pickup truck. Tahmooressi, who suffers from PTSD, served two tours in Afghanistan.
"I found him to be in good spirits, but this visit confirmed my belief that Sgt. Tahmooressi ... needs to come home," Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement. "While I remain respectful of Mexico's laws, today after I thanked him for his dedicated service, I assured Sgt. Tahmooressi that I will continue working to secure his release so that he can begin needed treatment for his PTSD."
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Obama’s pen and phone MIA on this one.
It looks like we have traded him for 50,000 illegal immigrant unaccompanied minors.
Obama is only concerned with releasing Muslim terrorists.
Rep. Ed Royce.....”While I remain respectful of Mexico’s laws.....”
Why? Mexico sure as hell isn’t respectful of OUR laws!
They do not respect our laws. We expect that they'll change and start respecting our laws if we keep respecting theirs?
meeehhhh
Imprison them or send them to a sanctuary city.
If we don't start fighting this war on even ground, we continue losing. They don't follow the law, we shouldn't either. How can we expect to combat them if we restrict ourselves in ways the enemy doesn't?
Imprison them or send them to a sanctuary city.
That’s exactly what needs to be done.
The guy can’t say what he wants ... YOU know that.
Give us a break on the PTSD will they?
I'll defer to the ones who have actually been on the battlefield and / or server them. Is that you, perchance?
They feel the need to marginalize these guys by saying he has PTSD.
If that’s ok with you, fine. You can leave the personal comments out of it.
My reaction is from KT McFarland, DOD, conservative yet, screeching within hours of the last Ft Hood shooting that all these guys are coming back with PTSD and are ticking time bombs.
In the face of importing tens of thousands of undocumented, disease carrying strangers with no families, no background checks.
do they mention what it does to a kid getting put on a train, and sent to a foreign country by his parents? ( and it is not the Montauk line bar car of the LIRR)
No.
This guy in Mexico should be out of there, or not one person crosses our border, but they feel the need to state he has PTSD.
The American people don’t even know about this case and would be unmoved if they did.
To be fair, most/all those weren’t from Mexico but from countries south of Mexico, trekking across Mexico on the way to the USA.
It’s good to hear that two HOR reps got involved. But why so few and why has it taken so long? There has to be some leverage the US has over Mexico to force the release of this soldier.
.......but they feel the need to state he has PTSD.
Are you saying that his PTSD is not a factor or important?
I am definitely stating that his PTSD is not a factor nor important.
Not in the case of his needing to get out of jail.
It is utterly outrageous that we don’t demand, after taking in tens of millions of illegal Mexicans and keeping even criminals, paying for them, that we do not demand that this guy get out of jail there and sent home.
His PTSD has something to do with that, why?
Not one democrat to my knowledge has tried to see him or has said a word of support for him
says a lot, also brings truth to their often repeated lie that they support the troops but not the mission.
They support the imprisionment of Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi at the El Hongo II prison in Tecate, Mexico and that is the truth
Obama’s pen and phone MIA on this one.
AMEN and bump to what you ALL said.
Bless these Reps for visiting this Marine and bringing attention to his horrible situation. Since OUR pResident does NOTHING...
Still, the question that has yet to be asked, is why Mexico is allowing other countries to cross their southern border when they've been long known to strongly guard that border? Why is this occurring now?
His PTSD has something to do with that, why?
You wouldn’t understand.
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