http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352986,00.html
This is really a sad story... this soldier was on the way to visit his mother in a different state and during his drive past El Paso, decided to have a meal in Mexico. He says he intended to park in the US and walk across the border to El Paso for the meal, but got lost somehow and was pulled over by the Mexican cops.
I don't know if his story sounds legitimate or not, but I think it is sad that this soldier is being held by a corrupt country like Mexico. We have 12 million of their illegals in our country. Maybe we can do a swap for just this one US soldier?
This is really a sad story... this soldier was on the way to visit his mother in a different state and during his drive past El Paso, decided to have a meal in Mexico. He says he intended to park in the US and walk across the border to El Paso for the meal, but got lost somehow and was pulled over by the Mexican cops.
I don't know if his story sounds legitimate or not, but I think it is sad that this soldier is being held by a corrupt country like Mexico. We have 12 million of their illegals in our country. Maybe we can do a swap for just this one US soldier?
An American veteran of the Iraq War is being held in a notoriously dangerous prison in Juarez, Mexico, charged with carrying weapons over the border in his car.
Army Spc. Richard Raymond Medina Torres, on leave from his base at Fort Hood, Tex., was arrested in Juarez April 21 when he said he mistakenly crossed the border and found himself on the Mexican side of the Bridge of the Americas.
Medina Torres, 25, told Mexican officials that he intended to park his car in El Paso and walk across the border for breakfast, but got lost on the highway and was forced to cross into Mexico.
According to the El Paso Times, Mexican border police stopped him as he attempted a U-turn, and Medina Torres was arrested when they found an AR-15 rifle and handgun in his trunk. The newspaper said that Medina Torres said he'd bought the guns years before and had all the proper permits. However possession of firearms in Mexico is illegal and strictly controlled.
"It’s a very sticky situation for foreigners to have weapons in Mexico," said a spokesman at the bureau of consular affairs at the State Department. "The laws are stricter and narrower there," he said.