Posted on 06/02/2009 1:27:26 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
The two teenage boys had arrived in Houston from Mexico last week, hoping to find work and better lives for themselves. On Sunday, they went with an older brother for an early morning fishing trip to one of his favorite fishing holes near Lake Houston.
Now, their older sister is making arrangements to have all three shipped home for burial in Mexico’s interior. The drowned bodies of the young men were recovered from a tributary of Lake Houston by Houston Police Department divers Monday afternoon, as their relatives, friends and neighbors watched from behind police lines.
Police said they do not know what happened to the three immigrants, although they said it appeared one jumped in the water from the bank, and the other two attempted to save him.
“We found some clothing on the bank. So, it appears at least one of them went into the water voluntarily,” HPD spokesman Kese Smith said. “Why the other two went in — to assist him or also voluntarily — that will be part of the investigation.”
None of the three knew how to swim, their sister Estela Salvador said.
The brothers’ fishing equipment, and some clothing, was found 90 yards downstream from where the three bodies were found in Big Eddy, a tributary of the San Jacinto River just below Lake Houston.
“They came here to better themselves,” Salvador said. “We’re sending them back to Mexico because that’s where their parents live.”
Made trip from Mexico
She said her two younger brothers, Jose Alfredo Salvador, 14, and Fidencio Salvador, 16, had arrived in Houston from Mexico three days before from the interior state of Michoacan. Another brother, Ernesto Salvador, 21, who had lived in Houston for two or three years, decided to take them fishing early Sunday morning...
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KEEP OUT, CLOSED TO PUBLIC, DO NOT ENTER, NO TRESPASSING, FISHING, SWIMMING, OR DUMPING.
Who reads signs?
Sad, if they stayed home in Mexico they would still be with their family.
Those signs weren’t in Spanish though were they? I’m sure the family will sue.
But were they in Spanish?
Sad story. I hurt for the parents.
So I assume the signs were in English..............
Burial in Mexicos interior? Where is Mexicos exterior?
Was it in Spanish?
Hey now, it’s not like it was something important like an election ballot...
No anchor corpses?
But were the signs in Spanish?
Oh that’s it. We’re to blame.
Where were the other relatives?
I’m sorry for the parents. Such sorrow.
I see the article calls them ‘immigrants’ not illegal aliens. They don’t read, and should’ve been taught better than to go in the water if they can’t swim, but Mexican parenting skills are pretty poor.
I see Mexican mothers walking down a busy street out here in Phoenix with their little ones walking on the sidewalk, BEHIND them, about 20 feet or better.
Third world crap.
you watch. in about 2 days there will be signs there in Spanish. if they aren’t there already.
The Carbuncle is nothing if not liberal.
Had I been writing the article it would have been "illegal f'n aliens".
Sorry they're dead, but they had no legitimate reason to be where they were.
“Burial in Mexicos interior? Where is Mexicos exterior?”
The USA, of course!
I was going to say along the Canadian border but that's probably inaccurate too these days.
I just wondered...however...when theres those kinds of signs up....theres usually a fence...
Oh, yeah. ‘Sorry they’re dead’ goes without saying. Yeah, who wants to see a mother lose her kids.
But a duck is a better mother.
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