The situation seemed pretty straightforward. He didn’t even WANT to cross the border. I know in the end it’s his responsibility for crossing, but he was apparently looking for and unable to turn back.
Shouldn’t a little common sense apply here somewhere? He was up front about the whole thing and got tossed in prison.
I know... I know... but it should still be said even if we are talking about Mexico.
If Obama cared, he could put pressure on Mexico. Like declaring the country off-limits to all American passport-holders until the Marine is returned to the US. But he could care less—the Marine never helped the Taliban.
The right thing to do would have been, in the absence of any evidence of wrong doing, to directly escort the man back to the US border.
It just wouldn’t have been lucrative to do that.
We dont need no stinking badges sound familiar.
They got one of us through what is probably a simple mistake and no one was harmed by his actions and its a big deal and we have how many of their citizens who deliberately knowingly violate our laws for their personal and perpetual profit and we should change our laws to accommodate by the way.
Bread and circus used to be confined to Rome but not anymore.