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With Mexico Being A Humane Country How Did This Happen Ex-u.s. Marine: Chained To Bed In Mexican Jail?


The issue of the shotgun came up near the border.
“I told him that we probably shouldn’t take the shotgun with us,” McDonough said. “And he said, ‘No, I’m going to get it cleared with customs at the gate.’ So I said, ‘That’s fine. As long as it’s legit.’ ”
The Customs and Border Protection agent said it was all right to take the shotgun, McDonough said, adding that the agent told them: “ ‘All you have to do is register it.’ So they gave us a piece of paper and said, ‘This is your registration. You’ve got to pay this much.’ They gave us the piece of paper to give to the Mexican authorities.”
As soon as the Winnebago lumbered over the bridge and they handed over the form to Mexican agents, trouble began. The two spent several days in custody, separated from each other. Mexican authorities eventually freed McDonough, perhaps because of his Argentine residency, and he walked back to Brownsville.
On Aug. 18, Mexican prosecutors leveled serious charges against Hammar. Curiously, it wasn’t the type of shotgun that broke Mexican law. It was the length of the barrel, which the formal citation said was shorter than 25 inches, although a discrepancy has emerged over how the barrel was measured.
“It’s a glorified BB gun,” Olivia Hammar said.
Indeed, Mexico’s criminal groups routinely wield AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, high-powered .50-caliber sniper rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and other potent weaponry. If Hammar had any intention of causing mayhem, using his great-grandfather’s proud firearm would have been like Daniel Boone and his muzzle-loading Tick-Licker fighting a modern U.S. Marine.
Back in April, the Dallas truck driver, Jabin Bogan, carrying 25,000 pounds of ammunition in his 18-wheeler, said he got lost in El Paso en route to a delivery in Phoenix. When he lurched to a stop at the Mexican border, asking to turn around, a Customs and Border Protection agent told him it was impossible. He was told to enter Mexico and make a U-turn. He had no passport and couldn’t speak Spanish.
The ammunition was openly displayed on nine pallets in the truck, most of it of a caliber unsuitable for the AK-47 and AR-15 rifles favored by Mexico’s cartels.
Mexican prosecutors charged him with crimes that could have brought more than 25 years in prison.
“My son was not trying to deliver no drugs or no guns to nobody,” Bogan’s mother, Aletha Smith, told an ABC-TV affiliate in Texas.
Through pressure from members of the U.S. Congress, Bogan was freed Nov. 23, and he returned to a tearful reunion in Dallas with his family.
While his ordeal was difficult, Hammar’s has been worse.
Once Hammar was sent to a state prison in Matamoros, mixed in with the general inmate population, late-night phone calls began to his parents in Palmetto Bay, Fla.
“They said, ‘I have your son. We need money.’ I said, ‘I’m going to call the (U.S.) consulate.’ They said, ‘The consulate can’t help you.’ Then they put him on the phone. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/12/06/176603/latest-hell-for-ex-us-marine-chained.html#storylink=cpy?storylink=addthis

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What Do Police Officers Do With Your Information?


About 5 years ago, when I was 15 years old, we used to live in a not-so-good neighborhood. Some guy that I went to school with used to live in that same neighborhood, he was about the same age as me. We didn’t talk a lot, just from time to time. One day, I am outside washing my parent’s truck and I see him coming down the street with a gang affiliated shirt. He sees me, so he stops to talk.
About 2 minutes after he arrives at my house, we see an unmarked police car turn the corner. I then tell him to take his shirt off or turn it inside out because the police officer was going to question him about it. He doesn’t listen and says that the officer won’t do anything. The officer drives up to us and calls him over. He talked to him for about 30 seconds, then he calls me over. The officer asks me what was up with my friends shirt. I tell the officer the same thing I told my friend, that I had told him to take it off because he was going to stop him and ask him about it. The officer then asks my age, If I was going to school, what school, then, he asks me for my name and date of birth.
Now what I am wondering and what I am a little bit worried about is, what did the officer do with my information? Did he simply do a search to see if I had a criminal record, or did he input me into the system as a gang member? If someone knows the answer, I appreciate your response, Thank you.

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Is There A Secret To Buying A Cheap Car? Please Fill Me In?


can someone help me find a good cheap used car, extended cab truck, minivan, conversion van, or suv? please tell me where i can find one? an auction? someone keeps flagging me when i place my ad on craigs list and i have a broke down car and need something! i dont want one thats 20 yrs old for 1800.
is this how bad for market is? should i just pay like 700-800 dollars to fix my car when its worth 700?
where do dealers get their cars from? auctions? how do i find one??
i need help. im a single mother and i have to walk with my kids more than a half mile away, and 1/2 miles back with 10-13 bags of groceries and a gallon of milk. i need advice from a real honest person. im sick of these heartless people out there who do nothing but love money.
my credit is poor from when i was in my late teens and early 20’s when i had no health insurance. and i had a heat bill i couldnt pay after my ex husband left. so i can only buy in cash.
i dont understand how i have less than 5,000 debt and have poor/bad credit when america has a++ credit and is 16 trillion in debt!
thanks and have a good day

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Is There A Secret To Buying A Cheap Car, I Asked On Car Section But They Are Slow?


can someone help me find a good cheap used car, extended cab truck, minivan, conversion van, or suv? please tell me where i can find one? an auction? someone keeps flagging me on craigs list and i have a broke down car and need something! i dont want one thats 20 yrs old for 1800.
is this how bad for market is? should i just pay like 700-800 dollars to fix my car when its worth 700?
where do dealers get their cars from? auctions? how do i find one?? i look online, ebay motors, newpapers.
i need help. im a single mother and i have to walk with my kids more than a half mile away, and 1/2 miles back with 10-13 bags of groceries and a gallon of milk. i need advice from a real honest person. im sick of these heartless people out there who do nothing but love money.
my credit is poor from when i was in my late teens and early 20’s when i had no health insurance. and i had a heat bill i couldnt pay after my ex husband left. so i can only buy in cash.
i dont understand how i have less than 5,000 debt and have poor/bad credit when america has a++ credit and is 16 trillion in debt!

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Regarding Daf Of Incoterms (foreign Trade)?


I need help to clarify a doubt regarding whether DAF term can be applied to USA – Mexico export / import transaction particularly at the border zone of Laredo, Tx.
In case you’re not familiar with the operation there, I would explain. The cargo is delivered by the USA supplier (exporter) to the forwarder’s warehouse at Laredo. Normally, that forwarder is an affiliate company of the Mexican customs broker, assigned by the Mexican customer (importer).
Therefore, the Mexican importer indicates to the American shipper the warehouse address, so that this shipper can arrange the land transportation (truck freight).
At the warehouse, there are several steps that must be followed; SED (Shipper’s Export Declaration), physical check of the cargo (mainly for the Mexican import customs clearance), issuance of the Mexican customs declaration.
Once this procedure is done, the cargo is loaded onto a ‘transfer truck’ (truck with permission to cross the border) with all the documents for the Mexican import customs clearance, and it goes through the border.
In normal cases, the work of this forwarder is paid by the Mexican importer though the Mexican customs broker (parent company of the forwarder).
Therefore, from the viewpoint of the USA shipper, they are delivering the commodity AT THE FORWARDER’S WAREHOUSE, even though such warehouse is located in the border zone (or border city).
My doubt is whether the DAF term, according to Incoterms, can be applied for this sort of operations, because even though the cargo is delivered at a border city, still it’s not ‘FRONTIER’, especially there are charges that are occurred on the USA side before crossing the border, so in my opinion, it does not fit to the definition of DAF, and most probably, the term most appropriate is DDU Laredo, TX.
As far as I have heard, DAF can be used only in European countries, where the truck goes through the border, without making any cargo handling, maybe just getting stamp on the documents, but splitting the freight cost in two parts; the freight from the origin up to the border to be covered by the seller, and the freight from the border up to its final destination. (I have heard that there are borders in Europe where there are only officers checking documents, but there is not any warehouse or space for cargo loading or unloading).
I really need to know if my understanding is correct or not.

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