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

The governors of Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Virginia wrote a letter Tuesday asking the territory to show mercy to the Americans arrested on the island.

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www.cbsnews.com /news/turks-and-caicos-ammo-governors-urge-release-americans-sharitta-shinise-grier/

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How arrogant of those American governers to assume they can just dictate how other countries deal with people smuggling weapons into their country (even if those people claim to have done it as a casual accident).
- You're naive if you think it won't work.
  
  20 American doctors starving and dehydrated in Gaza, Israel hitting their supply trucks being shipped in. If the U.S doesn't care about 20 doctors, they surely don't care about a few numbnuts
  
  The US, and certainly it's government, is not a monolith.
  
  You got it backwards. It's not about the people - it's about the principles! What do you think the US cherishes more - medicine or guns?
  
  How so??
  
  Impact to tourism notwithstanding, Turks and Caicos imports 75% of its goods from the US, which also supplies 99% of its petrol. They're not putting anyone in jail for 12 years because the person accidentally had two pistol rounds in their carry-on, let alone a citizen of their biggest trade partner.

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