Posted on 07/16/2020 11:46:23 AM PDT by BeauBo
Evidence continues to mount that spikes in Covid cases in U.S. border states are due to successive waves of infected people fleeing Mexico's dysfunctional and overwhelmed hospitals to get American medical care at least as much, if not more than, to the re-opening of those states' economies. This matters because officials in border states are beginning to base policy decisions for partial lock-downs on grounds that lifting them is what caused the spikes...
Earlier, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal all reported a crush of infected people from Mexico coming over the Arizona and California borders, although the publications say all appear to be American expatriates, dual citizenship holders, and Mexican legal permanent residents.
States appear to be transporting many to interior facilities to keep bed space free on the border as the influx continues, adding to the impression that these imported patients were infected inside the United States due to lifting lock-downs rather than in Mexico, where few social distancing measures were implemented.
The Times and now Reuters have reported that California, for instance, has been airlifting Covid patients from "saturated" border clinics to hospitals in the state's interior. (They might get double reported, as a result)
(Excerpt) Read more at cis.org ...
(Note that this article is from a few weeks ago - 24 June)
The article goes on to say:
In a recent interview with California Pastor Tim Thompson, who produces a Youtube video program titled "This is Our Watch", registered nurse Megan Hill, who is working with Covid patients in Riverside County, Calif., said her patients say they are being flown by helicopter to her hospital from border facilities overwhelmed by Mexico Covid refugees.
"According to my patients, they are coming over from Mexico because they're not getting treated in Mexico. They are flying helicopters every hour — bam, bam, bam — constantly flying them. It's definitely happening."
Hill said she does not know the nationalities of the patients, nor does she ask, but "What I do know is that a lot of them are Spanish-speaking only. What I do know is what my patients said, is a lot of them are coming over the border and going to the hospital and they're flying them from that hospital."
Hill also said she believes California is double counting these cases, once at the border, and then again at Riverside County hospitals.
People just taking advantage of th HOOPS and HOLES in the law. I think the ‘law’ on the books is, that ANYONE arriving at the border with life or death threatening illnesses, needs no passport, I.D. card, but goes straight to the hospital. Obviously, cities like Cd. Juarez, Mexicali, and Tijuana, Mexicans would prefer to ‘run’ to the border, declare a LIFE threatening illness, and go straight to emergency. Thus it is free, better, and people just doing what the law allows.
Over half of our local cases are from that community.
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Illegal aliens bringing disease?
Un-possible!
Have no problem with us helping them out. (They are being hit hard with CCP virus )
Problem is the criminally propagandist news media is reporting all day, every day, about "massive spikes!" and "huge numbers of hospitalizations!" and nothing about bringing people in to be treated.
Captain Obvious will be getting a workout on this thread.
Lots of USA expats live permanently in Mexico.
It would make sense for the expats to leave Mexico to be close to better medical facilities.
The Expats fleeing the Mexico covid infestation is very similar to the residents fleeing the NEW YORK covid infestation.
Since air travel is very limited, most of these expats would have to have driven from their Mexican home to the US border of TX, AZ, or CA.
We did just get the report about progress on the border wall. I wonder if there’s anything they can do to move it along more quickly. We need to be able to screen EVERYONE coming in, for both disease and criminal background.
I hope someone grills my governor, Ducey, and my mayor, Gallego over this.
Houston is nowhere near the border.
Close the border!! NOW!!
I thought they had cut down on border crossings.
if they are airlifting people from border to other hospitals as they are in Cali, then the cases aren’t originating in Houston but showing up in Houston #’s.
They have no trouble reaching Houston. That and 60,000 attending a lovefest rally for a thug and two weeks of riots and protests didn't help things...
Are you claiming these 'expats' have also forgotten how to speak english?
We all want reduced immigration, but the spikes are due to faulty data, not more Mexicans. Mexicans can get wrongfully counted as a valid “case” just like anyone else. The left is trying to fake-up the numbers without regard to nationality.
They have no trouble reaching Houston. That and 60,000 attending a lovefest rally for a thug and two weeks of riots and protests didn't help things...
It doesn’t have to be near the border-it has great medical facilities so of course expats would be brought there-besides, the problem was already brewing when the city allowed that over -the-top funerally for a dead druggie/thug with 60,000 atendees-but I’m sure everyone was virus free...
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