{"id":52290,"date":"2014-06-26T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52290"},"modified":"2014-06-25T18:10:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T22:10:42","slug":"vfw-boycott-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52290","title":{"rendered":"VFW: Boycott Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jun\/25\/veterans-boycott-mexico-over-marine-arrest\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that the Veterans of Foreign Wars is calling for a boycott on travel to and products from Mexico until former Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi is released from his imprisonment there. He was arrested by Mexican authorities when he accidentally crossed in Mexico carrying firearms and ammunition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis combat Marine has been languishing away since he was arrested March 31 for allegedly crossing the border accidentally with three personal firearms that were legally registered in the [U.S.] but not in Mexico,\u201d said VFW National Commander William A. Thien. \u201cIt was a mistake, but so is the Mexican government\u2019s reluctance to release him unharmed back to the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Thien added that the VFW has already attempted to negotiate the release politically, asking President Obama to contact Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, but said that that phone call never took place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did I mention that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jun\/17\/feds-armed-mexican-troops-police-jump-border\/\">Mexican police regularly cross<\/a> the US\/Mexico border &#8220;accidentally&#8221;?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Homeland Security numbers, there have been 300 incursions by Mexican police or troops since Jan. 1, 2004. The Mexicans were armed in slightly more than half of those incidents, totaling 525 people. There was a verbal or physical altercation between U.S. authorities and the Mexicans in 81 instances \u2014 totaling 320 Mexican police or troops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that the Veterans of Foreign Wars is calling for a boycott on &hellip; <a title=\"VFW: Boycott Mexico\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52290\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VFW: Boycott Mexico<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}