Posted on 04/30/2009 8:33:35 AM PDT by bgill
Three days of the family's whereabouts were missing in prior reports. Now we know why it was kept hush-hush - they were shopping in a Houston mall the day before he (supposedly) showed symptoms.
It wouldn't let me link the AP article on first try:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SWINE_FLU_DEATH?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-04-30-11-00-46
Would that be the time they were slipping into the country???
Open borders.
Too bad it doesn’t mention which mall. I’d guess the Galleria or Memorial City.
That is not what was reported. They said he was in Brownsville when he got sick and was transported to Houston to the hospital. Which story is a lie?
We need that picture of the illegals flipping off Americans.
Wait - they were all the way down in Brownsville - came up to Houston with a sick kid, went out shopping, went back to Brownsville then came back to Houston to a hospital???
A couple of years ago, we attended the Houston Livestock Show with our grandchildren who live there. Because of the petting zoo/salmonella scare, their petting zoo had dispensers of hand cleaner that children were to use after petting the animals.
As I waited for my grandchildren to finish petting the animals, I noticed that all the Anglo parents made sure that their children thoroughly cleaned their hands before leaving the site. In the half hour I observed, not one Mexican family used the hand cleanser.
I pray my grandchildren were not in the mall that this child visited. As a sanctuary city, Houston is infested with third-worlders who have no concept of sanitation. It is no place to rear children.
Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos, who interviewed members of the Brownsville family with whom the toddler was staying, said they spent three nights in Houston just before he fell ill.
The hospital and health officials on Wednesday said the 23-month old boy had traveled from Mexico City to Brownsville, where he became sick and was medically transported to Texas Children's Hospital. They said he had had no outside contact. The family has shown no symptoms.
Who paid the medical bills????
They apparently are US citizens that live in Laredo (a border town).
Probably rich and upper class hispanic.
Sorry, Mcallen, not Laredo. same thing.
Darn, I didn’t notice your link before posting....so the whole “visiting in Brownsville” story was kind of not important to this case - they came through Brownsville but always intended on going to Houston...... went shopping, then the kid showed symptoms of illness so they just went straight to a Houston hospital.... two days ago the story was they rushed the baby from Brownsville to Houston.
AY CHIHUAHUA!!
Look in the mirror.
I always thought Houston was a great city. Affordable to live, conservative leaning and relatively safe for a big city.
Guess I’m wrong, huh?
The first question posed to the teleprompter last night:
`What about securing the borders?’
Response: `That would be like closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.’
Did you read somewhere that they were American citizens? I thought I read they were Mexicans visiting family in Brownsville?
Well.at least the customs agent did’t wear a mask to scare
the children!
No, Houston proper (with a few exceptions) is now just another inner city ghetto, with some multimillion dollar high rise condos and enclaves of super wealthy people.... the suburbs of Houston are nice.
More like shop-lifting......
That’s probably true, but local media has said they were US citizens.
There are a lot of very, very wealthy families that move back-and-forth from that area, and have since before there was a border.
The timing of this (school break) and the location (the Gallaria, which is an upscale mall) indicates to me that this was a wealthy family.
No, I heard it on the radio.
I saw a video of matt liar, uh I mean matt lauer interviewing Plugs Biden, and he used a great metaphor to contradict Obama - (I know, I was stunned too) He said well, if a water pipe bursts and floods the house, even though you will have to clean up you still go back and turn off the water! (ok something like that, although my comment is better....) And Plugs said it was not a good metaphor... lol
Yet another reason I don’t go to malls.
Thanks - two days ago the word was that the kid was rushed from Brownsville to Houston to the hospital - now they were in Houston shopping.... the ever evolving story. lol
We lived in Houston about 30 years ago, and it was a nice city then. Unfortunately, it has not improved over the years. A couple of years ago, we were invited to an old friend’s anniversary party and ventured into an area we no longer recognized because it had become a barrio while we were away. We had to stop at four 7/11s before we found someone who spoke enough English to give us directions.
As for “conservative” politics, our son’s representative in Congress is Sheila Jackson Lee....absolutely pathetic...and the Houston Comical is the only newspaper in town. Enough said.
But Kathy Barton, a spokeswoman for the Houston Health and Human Services Department, told Houston television station KTRK that the toddler came from Mexico.
One of the biggest problems — with this flu, with the Air Force One incident, with Pelosi and her knowledge of waterboarding — is that we just can’t trust ANYTHING this administration says. They lie, hide, and obfuscate. The media tells me that this administration is amazingly transparent — and perhaps that’s true: I can see right through them.
I'm still reading the stimulus bill to see just how much money was set aside for just this occasion
The timeline of their story has been changing every day and never makes any sense. An observant poster around here asked why there were three days missing in the reports and why wasn’t this nailed down. Call me racist, but I’ve never met an illegal who could keep their story straight. And puleeze, I ain’t buying for a minute that the family had no outside contact with anyone during all the time they were here.
I’d said before that they would most likely have driven through Corpus Christi between Brownsville and Houston. They would have had to stop for food, gas, and potty breaks at some point. Corpus would be an obvious stopping point. Coincidentally, a teen aged boy from there has been added to the list. I dunno, but just saying.
“I always thought Houston was a great city. Affordable to live, conservative leaning and relatively safe for a big city.
Guess I’m wrong, huh?”
WAY! Largest homosexual community in Texas, I think (Montrose district is a mecca), extremely high murder rate, higher cost of living than here in San Antonio.
There are no 7-11's in Houston. They are not franchised here.
Waite how did illegals vote??
I certainly don’t know who is correct.
I would point out that the Chronical article claims the child fell ill in Brownsville and was transported to Houston, which is apparently wrong.
My only point is these do not appear to be crotch-grabbing wetbacks, but rather upper class folks, quite probably (from the towns and the travel noted and the mall) rich folk from the border.
Being born in Mexico City is pretty typical, in fact, for rich US Citizen Hispanics -— kind of like inverse anchor babies.
It has to do with certain laws related to real property ownership in Mexico.
I and many others used that same comparison during the 2007 immigration fight. I think Plugs doesn't like the metaphor because it is too accurate.
The only reason you don't turn off the water is if your mopping effort is just for show.
three days, schmee days! BO was too busy for this or paying attention to and calling for the killing or capture of the TERRORISTS that held Capt. Kellerman hostage! Or ignoring the Tea Parties.
This is all baby stuff compared to what he’s been up to destroying the very foundations of all this country stands for and SCREW the people.
He’d be a joke of a president if he weren’t so intent on that big picture.
Because northerners don’t know what “ice houses” are, I use the generic “7/11” term.
I was at a park during the early voting period this past November - a woman and her daughter walked up to us to ask where to vote (even though the building with signs in spanish was right in front of her...in spanish she asked if anyone could help her... (hey I only know because someone pointed toward the building)....neither one of them could speak a word of English but went inside to vote.
Sure, you can....but the naked Emperor is seen in his finery by the easily duped liberals
There is a 7-Eleven on the corner of San Felipe & Winrock, across from a Whataburger.
(Or there was a couple years ago.)
Plugs is a good liar, I’ll give him that - but I had to laugh when he said not to get on a plane, train, subway, bus, etc..... Bambi has to be wondering where he can get a roll of flesh colored duct tape....
Zero could give lying lessons to both Clintons and John “Frikkin’” Kerry.
There is a petition to bring back 7-11 to Houston:
http://www.petitiononline.com/7112003/petition.html
Maybe there are a couple of outlaw or fake 7-11’s around.
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