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U.S. governors urge Turks and Caicos to release Americans as Florida woman becomes 5th tourist arrested for ammo in luggage (www.cbsnews.com)

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[-] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world 60 points 7 months ago

Would America just release tourists who broke their laws?

[+] Tikiporch@lemmy.world -27 points 7 months ago

What is an American law that's equivalent to this?

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 26 points 7 months ago

Weed is legal in Canada, illegal in the US.

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 18 points 7 months ago

Yeah, what about their Second Amendment Rights in other countries? /s

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

No, not that at all. What they did is unlawful in the US as well.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Bring along a Kinder surprise egg into the US and see how understanding and friendly the US legal system is to people who made a honest mistake.

[-] theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

You can bring them back with no issue. It has never been an issue, just a regulatory prohibition on selling them.

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Better example: drugs which are legal in other countries but not the US.

What would US law enforcement do if they found you with illegal (in US) drugs, eh?

They sure as hell wouldn't be letting you off with it.

[-] Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Marijuana maybe? I don't know how strict the guns laws are there but that's the closest I can think of.

[-] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

See: Aaron Swartz

On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT. Federal prosecutors, led by Carmen Ortiz, later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

oh I can think of tens of thousands of people imprisoned for just holding a tiny bit of weed. bet some of them were mexican, canadian and otherwise foreign citizens, do you think that gave the local yokels pause in putting them in jail? charging them?

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