Lawmakers on Monday urged President Biden to focus as much attention on bringing home four Americans kidnapped in Mexico as he did on getting WNBA star Brittney Griner out of a Russian prison.
“If Joe Biden can trade the ‘Merchant of Death’ for Brittney Griner, he better be focusing on these four Americans ASAP,” tweeted Rep. Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican.
The lawmakers criticized Mr. Biden after the four Americans were kidnapped Friday by armed men in Mexico, the FBI said in a statement. A $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the victims’ return and the arrest of the culprits. Law enforcement has not yet identified the names of those who were kidnapped and their conditions are also unknown. It is also not clear why the Americans entered Mexico.
Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday that the Americans had crossed the border to buy medicine and ended up caught in the crossfire between two armed groups. “There have been two armed incidents between unidentified civilians,” the state police said Friday on social media. “The exact number of the fallen is being corroborated.”
Photographs from the scene viewed by the Associated Press show a white minivan with the driver’s side window shot out and all of the doors open sitting on the side of the road after apparently colliding with a red SUV. Multiple people were lying in the street beside it surrounded by rifle-toting gunmen.
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