I just saw them, a phenomenal duo, last year at the World Music Festival. Man, who knew the guy was a terrorist?? :rolleyes:
Our tax dollars at work. Shit, he might strangle someone with his guitar strings.
I, for one, am GLAD that our fine law enforcement agents have targeted this guy.
I met a pretty girl at a Jonny Lang show. She suggested that our first date be a Rodrigo y Gabriela show.
Thanks to our fine American border guard system, the show was canceled. That meant that our date was instead dinner, a drink, and coffee.
Conversation ensued.
I got a kiss. 
Equipoise, why do you hate our troops?
Oh, yeah…
Haven’t you ever seen El Mariachi? That guy could have an arsenal hidden in that guitar case.
I was really looking forward to seeing them in Austin last week, so I was pretty disappointed to hear this.
Isn’t Rodrigo Sanchez an awfully common name to keep someone out of the country over?
From what I understand about the case (mostly NPR) and speaking in general terms, what I heard is that Rodrigo was told that there would be additional security processing that is standard in some cases and that he decided to withdraw his application for a visa.
As an aside, we don’t renew visas any more, and when someone reapplies for a new visa, they’re subject to the same security processing that anybody is. People who issue visas over a security alert are subject to fairly strict penalties, so my read is that the person whose job it was to issue the visa couldn’t tell from the information given whether the security alerts, called "hits"pertained from the information that was present, and sent back to Washington. This happens every day all over the world and is pretty routine. We tell people about the processing times and they can choose to withdraw their application if they want.
I just have one question:
R&R are World Music? Sure, spanish guitars, but they do Metallica covers, ffs!
R&G I mean.
I think Pepe Sánchez and Paco Sánchez may sound even more like John Smith… but still, Rodrigo Sánchez would be equivalent to William Smith. I’m sure nobody here has heard of any guys named Will Smith :rolleyes:
What sort of extra processing would be required? I’m guessing that the Feds would have to verify that the Rodrigo Sanchez in question isn’t the guy they’re worried about. Would it be anything more than an extra wait for the musician?
“Let me see your entertainer’s visa.”
“You don’t need to see his entertainer’s visa.”
“We don’t need to see his entertainer’s visa.”
“This is not the Mexican you’re looking for.”
“This is not the Mexican we’re looking for.”
“He can go about his business.”
“You can go about your business.”
“Move along.”
“Move along.”
::d&r::
I see nothing to indicate his name was on a terrorist watch list. Maybe there is a Mexican drug warlord with the same name.
Just a wait of about 30 days in most cases and perhaps a 10 card of fingerprints. The reason we do this is so we can ascertain that the person in front of you isn’t the criminal, drug lord, terrorist, or wanted fugitive. It also makes going through the immigration checkpoint easier for them, since we’ve already checked and are in effect saying “This dude is okay.”