What happens to American citizens and their minor children if they are caught trying to remain in Mexico without a visa?
There are no criminal penalties for illegally overstaying your visa or for not having a visa; there are no detention centers and no one is locked up for immigration violations, including false documents. Depending on your circumstances, you will be asked to leave and may be escorted to an airport or the border especially if you are involved in criminal activity or have had problems, but you will not be imprisoned and no one will take your children for immigration violations. In fact, if you are a foreigner and have a child born in Mexico you are immediately eligible for a permanent resident visa and the possibility of naturalization in 2 years. The same if you marry a Mexican citizen. Family reunification is extremely important in the Mexican immigration law. Your resident visa, temporary or permanent, must be applied for in your country of origin at a Mexican consulate and then presented to immigration when you arrive in Mexico. Almost every year there is a short term amnesty program to legalize foreigners that have been living without problems in the country. If you are undocumented person but have demonstrated that you are an honest person involved in legal activities, your situation can be regularized. If a Mexican company offers you a job in Mexico, you can apply for a work visa in the US at a Mexican consulate and if it is a legitimate job offer by a real company, you will be granted a work visa. If you want to retire in Mexico, you only have to verify that you have income of about $1500 USD per month and you will receive a visa to live legally in Mexico.
Why isn’t the NRA complaining about the Bump Stock Ban?
They probably asked for it.1: automatic weapons were a toy of the rich the gun lobby sacrificed in 1986 to end some State and Federal LEO stupidities (really look at FOPA1986 and try to understand how important it was to pass even with the hughes poison pill)2: bump stocks are also a toy that can be sacrificed to stop new, end current, or offset possible future state and federal stupidites…3: if a SHOESTRING violated NFA1934, even before HUGHES, then Bump stocks and fire pull, fire release triggers should have been a violation of NFA1934 and Hughes/FOPA1986 from the time they appeared on the drawing board (hughes should be struck as unconstitutional, but that presupposes that the second amendment requires military equipment (it clearly states “ARMS” and not “Hunting Arms” to be affordable and not just available)The modern armies arm their troops with full automatic weapons or burst automatic weapons and sometimes weapons that are capable of both burst and full burst and sometimes in addition to semi-automatic fire… and this is the standard issue weapon and not specialty weapons like sniper rifles, battle rifles, or machine gunsIf it is Full Automatic or Burst Automatic, it is governed by NFA1934 and manufacture/import for sale to civilians has been banned since 1986… if a civilian owned (well, anyone owned it privately) an automatic weapon before 1986 you can buy it and be registered as the new owner after ATF proctology and tax (none of this “three days to deny” crap… actual approval… and they are deadly serious.)
How does resentment build up, and how do you stop it?
Here’s how resentment happens:You and other person have relationship. Relationship inherently comes with some sort of expectation(s). (This goes for significant others, friendships, peers, etc.)Other person expects something of you that you aren’t entirely comfortable with (for whatever reason, ranging in dynamics)—but to preserve the friendship/relationship, you decide to compromise yourself for the time being.Time goes on, and you continue to keep quiet, compromising yourself in order to preserve the dynamic.The dynamic is now built on a false and somewhat faulty expectation.You begin to resent them for asking this of you / and you begin to resent yourself for having allowed it in the first place.You proceed to suppress these feelings until one day, you burst (or you effectively kill off that part of yourself and it never rises to the surface, ever).The strange thing about resentment is it’s often thought of as this thing outside of ourselves. It’s the other person’s fault.But the truth is, the feeling of resentment is our own. We resent ourselves for having made a compromise contrary to how we truly feel.If you want to stop resentment long before it actually becomes a problem, you have to live by your truth. You have to not compromise yourself.That is the only time resentment ever enters the equation.
I have a warrant for my arrest in Texas. I don't plan on ever going back to Texas. Can they still get me in California?
Texas would have to want you for something way more serious than an unpaid traffic fine to extradite you from California. Extraditions are expensive. It's salary, plane fare, ground transportation, hotel, and meals for two cops both ways and one prisoner for the trip back. There is no sense to doing that to get a fine of a few hundred bucks, at most. This doesn't mean that you are free and clear so long as you stay out of Texas. If you try and obtain a drivers license in California or most other states, they will probably check for suspensions in other states, and a traffic warrant usually also suspends your license. A background check for a new job could reveal the warrant. Some local courts report unpaid fines to credit agencies, damaging your credit report. There are all sorts of loose ends associated with arrest warrants, and one of them is likely to trip you up. Arrest warrants are valid until served or recalled. Some courts put an expiration date on warrants, but just as many do not. I once served an arrest warrant that had been sitting in file over ten years. It stemmed from a citation issued by an animal control officer for allowing a dog to run free, without a leash. Arrest warrants are court orders to any peace officer with jurisdiction and capability to serve the warrant. If the officer was to refuse to serve the warrant, he could be held in contempt of court. While it may be personally satisfying to flip the figurative bird at the Texas court that imposed the fine or the police agency that gave you the ticket, the arm of the law is long, and has a way of reaching out and touching you sooner or later.
What is your solution to prevent mass shootings?
There is no solution, the gun genii is out of the bottle forever. Even after 20 little kids die not from a crim going on a rampage with an illegal gun, but from a 'troubled' teenager with his own mom's legal high powered weapons, there are Americans who still love their guns more ... ! In Australia, after the Port Arthur massacre where a teenage boy shot and killed 35 with similar weapons used by Adam Lanza, the Australian government and the Australian people had the guts and the will power to bring in very strict gun control laws ... there was a gun amnesty where people brought in their guns and were paid for them ... the rest is history ... Australia is the safest place on earth when it comes to death by gun ... of course there are still guns used by crims to shoot each other. Of course there was no powerful NRA in Australia ... no Wayne Lapierre to contend with ... no paranoid rednecks ... no outdated second amendment ... so it looks like we will be forever stuck with the status quo ... !
Is there any chance, as a gun control compromise, to have another machine gun amnesty, like the gun control act of 1968?
There can be no compromise when it comes to giving up my rights and freedoms. None.You do know that it is legal to own machine guns in the U.S., right? All you have to do is apply to the ATF, undergo a background check, and pay $200 a tax stamp. According to the latest ATF report there are currently over 500,000 legally licensed fully automatic weapons in the U.S. Which begs the question, why do you feel this urgent need to get rid of them? With all those automatic weapons already out there, there have only been 2 verified cases of a LEGAL automatic weapon being used in a crime. 2 out of 500,000. Makes it kind of hard to build a case that machine guns are an imminent threat to public safety. And I doubt the people who bought those firearms LEGALLY aren’t likely to turn them in given that they are quite expensive to purchase. And it’s a given that criminals won’t turn their’s in.
What happens if you have a gun license in your state and you cross the border of another state with a gun in your car?
Depends on the states in question. Here’s one instance of that very scenario going very, very badly, involving a PA license holder being stopped, arrested and jailed in, surprise surprise, New Jersey:How A Philly Mom’s Legal Battle Rallied Pro-Gun AdvocatesThis particular story had a happy ending; Governor Christie pardoned her. It could very easily have gone the other way, and I doubt very much that Christie’s successor, Phil Murphy, would be as accommodating. I wouldn’t be surprised to see another Philly native take a wrong turn and end up in Atlantic City, and spend 2 years in jail and lose their gun rights forever because New Jersey doesn’t like guns.In most inland states, this isn’t so much of an issue, as concealed carry reciprocity is common among all but 8 of the most gun-unfriendly states in the Union. Having a concealed carry permit from pretty much any state east of California and west of Maryland will be honored by pretty much all the rest of those states, although there are notable exceptions, so make sure to check the reciprocity status of the permit you have.So, get in a car in Dallas with your LTC and a concealed pistol, and drive up to Oklahoma City, or Little Rock, or over to Phoenix (where you don’t even need a permit, resident or otherwise), and you’ll have no problem whatsoever, as long as you’re following the laws of the state you’re currently in, which may differ from your home state. Texas, for instance, requires a very specific sign with exact wording for a private property owner to ban handgun carry. Arizona’s compliant sign is much simpler and would, to a Texan, look like a basic “gunbuster” sign which is non-binding in Texas. It would be a mistake, however, to act accordingly and ignore it.