Priorities: A Marine Corps combat veteran remains in a Mexican jail after missing a freeway ramp and crossing the border with legally owned American firearms — without a single hash tag from the White House.

It is a tough time for veterans these days, starting with those left to die — or even commit suicide — while on Veterans Administration waiting lists, seemingly abandoned by their commander-in-chief who early on promised to make things right and redress their grievances.

Also seemingly abandoned is Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a 25-year-old combat veteran, who was jailed in late March after he missed a freeway exit near San Ysidro, Calif., and drove into Tijuana.

In his trunk, Mexican authorities found three guns that he legally owned in the United States. Tahmooressi was incarcerated in La Mesa Prison in Tijuana, a fate the Obama administration's gun walkers in Fast and Furious never had to face.

At the time of his arrest, the 25-year-old active U.S. Marine reservist, who served two combat tours in Afghanistan, was moving to San Diego to be close to his treatment center for his post-traumatic stress disorder.

Proceedings against Tahmooressi are scheduled for May 28.

Soon after being jailed, Tahmooressi was transferred to a maximum security facility roughly 40 miles outside of Tijuana. After Mexican authorities said he allegedly attempted to escape and suffered a self-inflicted stab wound, he was at one point placed in a jail infirmary with his arms and legs restrained.

If convicted, he could serve up to 21 years in a Mexican prison for accidentally carrying his firearms across the border.

So far, an administration that last year released 36,000 illegal alien criminals — including rapists and murderers — onto American streets has done little to bring back one unjustly imprisoned Marine from Mexico.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, has asked Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to suspend military aid to Mexico, including training, intelligence cooperation and equipment transfers until Tahmooressi is released, a plea that has fallen on deaf ears.

"You have the authority to suspend cooperation with the Mexican military in a number of areas," said Hunter, who served two tours as a member of the Marine Corps in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. "In light of the Mexican government's incarceration of Andrew, I urge you to immediately consider suspending training and equipment assistance to Mexico until Andrew's case is resolved."

Interestingly, armed incursions into the United States by Mexican soldiers have become routine without any serious reaction from the Obama administration.

In January, soldiers of the Mexican Army drew their guns on U.S. Border Patrol agents just 50 yards into the United States.

Then in March, they opened fire on Javier Jose Rodriguez, a young Tucson man visiting family in Sásabe when he was driving around the town early on a Saturday morning after drinking beers with friends.

Rodriguez was shot in the arm and in the side. He spent three weeks at University of Arizona Medical Center, running up medical bills over $43,000.

The case is eerily similar to another we've written about, that of Jon Hammar, a former Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, who was held for four months in 2012 in a notorious Mexican prison effectively run by the Zetas drug cartel.

His crime: declaring to Mexican authorities that he was transporting an antique shotgun after registering the gun with U.S. Customs agents on his way to a surfing trip with buddies in Costa Rica.

"His commander-in-chief is President Obama so I haven't heard from President Obama," Andrew's mother, Jill Tahmooressi, said Monday on "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."

He is not the only veteran waiting for help and answers from the Obama administration.

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We will never do it but it would be lovely if the US was to mobilize all the Marines in the San Diego area (and there are lots of them as it's a Navy base town), and then march into Mexico to free this guy. Then shut down the damn border and watch Tijuana and Baja starve to death.

Screw the Mexicans. They are not our friends.