Mexican Government Wants El Paso Shooter Extradicted

By Tom Knighton

When we hear the word “extradition,” it applies to someone breaking a law in one place, then going to another jurisdiction in hopes of avoiding prosecution.

It doesn’t really apply for a law broken in one country when the suspect was arrested right there.

However, it seems that Mexico wants the El Paso shooter extradited to their country.

Mexico’s president wants [the alleged El Paso shooter] — accused of slaughtering 22 people at an El Paso Walmart — extradited and tried there as well as in the US, he announced this week.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made the call during a Wednesday speech in the southern state of Oaxaca.

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In the past, Mexico and the US have had an arrangement in which a suspect convicted in one country can immediately be extradited for trial in the other, and then serve a sentence in either nation. El Paso is a predominantly Latino city that borders Mexico.

Except, that’s not what happened.

The alleged gunman in El Paso didn’t break any laws in Mexico. We don’t know that he’s even been to Mexico.

What Obrador is doing is demanding that someone who broke American laws on American soil be sent to Mexico simply because he …Read the Rest

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