Heartless human smugglers are pushing migrants to scale a 30-foot wall at the US border — resulting in hundreds of people being seriously injured or killed by the fall.
Nine migrants were killed last year after jumping off the barrier between the US and Mexico at just one hospital in El Paso, with another 326 treated for often gruesome injuries from falling up to three stories, USA Today reported.
As of October of this year, other medical facilities in San Diego reported 345 trauma injuries from falling walls, including 70 in October alone – an average of more than twice a day.
The scene was repeated across the border.
“We found that starting right around 2020 the number has increased,” said Dr. Susan McLean, director of the surgical ICU at University Medical Center in El Paso, told USA Today.
“It qualifies as a public health problem,” McLean said. “It’s a preventable problem with serious consequences.”
Customs and Border Protection officials are urging immigrants to use alternative routes to the US to avoid border mishaps. New York Post An altar commemorating dead immigrants, placed on the 30-foot wall that marks the US-Mexico border. AFP via Getty Images
The casualties come as thousands of migrants continue to flock to the border at the behest of greedy traffickers who deposit them by the Mexican wall after a long and difficult journey — leaving desperate migrants little choice.
Once at the border wall, smugglers, often working quickly to avoid detection, usually throw a rope ladder to the top of the wall on the Mexican side.
Migrants have to pull themselves out, but there is nothing on the US side that leaves them to jump on the floor. During this dangerous descent, most accidents occur.
“They don’t treat you like a queen,” a migrant with a broken leg told the outlet. “You have to climb.”
US hospitals along the US border have seen a spike in horrific injuries from migrants falling from the 30-foot border wall. James Keivom
No comprehensive list is maintained of the number of migrants injured or killed while climbing the wall, and many injuries go unreported when those affected leave the scene but US Customs and Border Protection data show that in 2021 — the most recent data available — 19 migrants out of 151 deaths in the border died due to a fall.
In September, after a 30-year-old woman was killed after falling from a wall, authorities reported that there had been a 162% increase in fatal falls in the past three years.
Hospital care on the US side for those who suffer falls or other injuries at the border is essential. According to the New York Times, the cost of treating immigrants at two San Diego trauma centers has risen from $11 million between 2016 and 2019 to $72 million from 2020 to June 2022.
The issue has prompted immigration officials to urge immigrants to find alternative routes to the US.
“Crossing the border illegally is indeed dangerous,” customs officials said in a statement. “CBP urges immigrants to find a legal route to the United States and not put their lives in the hands of human traffickers, whose priority is profit.”
The Biden administration derided the border wall but has since allocated $950 million to repair and expand it. New York Post
Former President Donald Trump, who commissioned a 30-foot barrier to replace the existing 18-foot version along that section of the border in 2019, once deemed the wall “impassable.”
Joe Biden mocked the wall when he moved into the White House and said not one foot of it would be built during his administration. However, he has since made an open face as the crisis at the border has become untenable for the administration.
Earlier this year, Biden lost and allocated $950 million to repair and fill gaps in the border wall, including launching a new barrier in Texas.
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