Post by abbey1227 on May 4, 2022 10:15:15 GMT
The Guardian
Trump’s border wall has resulted in ‘unprecedented’ increase in migrant injuries and death
Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles Mon, May 2, 2022, 4:18 PM
Donald Trump’s “impenetrable” border wall has resulted in increased migrant deaths and devastating injuries from falling, according to a new study that analyzed the effect of the new barriers on a southern California hospital.
The US replaced more than 400 miles of existing barriers that were between six and 17ft tall with a 30-ft steel wall, and added nearly 50 miles of new barrier under the former president, who campaigned on the promise of “securing” America’s borders and routinely demonized migrants.
The wall has been far from Trump’s promise of being “virtually impenetrable” – smugglers breached what he called the “Rolls-Royce” of barriers more than 3,000 times since its construction. Though the former president said his wall “can’t be climbed”, migrants have continued scaling the barrier, facing great peril. Last month a woman died while attempting to scale the wall in eastern Arizona after her leg became trapped in a climbing harness and she was left hanging upside down.
A study, published in the Jama surgery journal on Friday, found an unprecedented increase in the number of falls from the border wall in San Diego and Imperial counties. The report is one of the first efforts to calculate the effects of Trump’s wall on migrants, according to the Washington Post, as federal officials don’t track deaths and injuries related to falls from the barrier.
The University of California San Diego trauma center, which treats patients with border wall injuries, saw a five-time increase in the number of people admitted with falling injuries from 67 cases between 2016 and 2018 to 375 cases between 2019 and 2021. During that same time, the number of deaths rose from zero to 16, according to the report, which cites data from the San Diego county medical examiner’s office.
Related: ‘A senseless tragedy’: woman dies after bid to climb US border wall
Trauma doctors say the rise in injuries is related to the increase of the height of the border wall.
“The height increase of the border wall along the San Ysidro and El Centro sectors was touted as making the barrier ‘unclimbable’, but that has not stopped people from attempting to do so with consequential results,” said Amy Liepert, an author of the study and medical director of acute care surgery at UC San Diego Health. “This is an unseen public health crisis happening right now.”
Most of the patients the hospital treated had “significant brain and facial injuries or complex fractures of the extremities or spine”, many of which required “intensive care and staged operative reconstructions”. Because patients largely did not have health insurance they were ineligible for rehabilitation centers or physical therapy, and had longer hospital stays.
The costs of the increase in patients was more than $13m, and further burdened the trauma center as it grappled with rising Covid cases amid the pandemic, according to the study.
“The care of these injured immigrants is not only a humanitarian problem but also a public health crisis that further worsened trauma center bed capacity, staff shortages, and professionals’ moral injury,” the authors wrote.
Trump’s border wall has resulted in ‘unprecedented’ increase in migrant injuries and death
Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles Mon, May 2, 2022, 4:18 PM
Donald Trump’s “impenetrable” border wall has resulted in increased migrant deaths and devastating injuries from falling, according to a new study that analyzed the effect of the new barriers on a southern California hospital.
The US replaced more than 400 miles of existing barriers that were between six and 17ft tall with a 30-ft steel wall, and added nearly 50 miles of new barrier under the former president, who campaigned on the promise of “securing” America’s borders and routinely demonized migrants.
The wall has been far from Trump’s promise of being “virtually impenetrable” – smugglers breached what he called the “Rolls-Royce” of barriers more than 3,000 times since its construction. Though the former president said his wall “can’t be climbed”, migrants have continued scaling the barrier, facing great peril. Last month a woman died while attempting to scale the wall in eastern Arizona after her leg became trapped in a climbing harness and she was left hanging upside down.
A study, published in the Jama surgery journal on Friday, found an unprecedented increase in the number of falls from the border wall in San Diego and Imperial counties. The report is one of the first efforts to calculate the effects of Trump’s wall on migrants, according to the Washington Post, as federal officials don’t track deaths and injuries related to falls from the barrier.
The University of California San Diego trauma center, which treats patients with border wall injuries, saw a five-time increase in the number of people admitted with falling injuries from 67 cases between 2016 and 2018 to 375 cases between 2019 and 2021. During that same time, the number of deaths rose from zero to 16, according to the report, which cites data from the San Diego county medical examiner’s office.
Related: ‘A senseless tragedy’: woman dies after bid to climb US border wall
Trauma doctors say the rise in injuries is related to the increase of the height of the border wall.
“The height increase of the border wall along the San Ysidro and El Centro sectors was touted as making the barrier ‘unclimbable’, but that has not stopped people from attempting to do so with consequential results,” said Amy Liepert, an author of the study and medical director of acute care surgery at UC San Diego Health. “This is an unseen public health crisis happening right now.”
Most of the patients the hospital treated had “significant brain and facial injuries or complex fractures of the extremities or spine”, many of which required “intensive care and staged operative reconstructions”. Because patients largely did not have health insurance they were ineligible for rehabilitation centers or physical therapy, and had longer hospital stays.
The costs of the increase in patients was more than $13m, and further burdened the trauma center as it grappled with rising Covid cases amid the pandemic, according to the study.
“The care of these injured immigrants is not only a humanitarian problem but also a public health crisis that further worsened trauma center bed capacity, staff shortages, and professionals’ moral injury,” the authors wrote.
The taller border wall has made what was already a perilous journey for migrants even riskier. At least 7,000 people are believed to have died along the US-Mexico border since 1998, the Guardian reported in 2021.
and the other view on the matter........
Washington Post Roasted for Shaming Trump's Wall Causing Deaths of Illegal Crossers
Julio Rosas Posted: May 02, 2022 2:15 PM
Washington Post Roasted for Shaming Trump's Wall Causing Deaths of Illegal Crossers
The Biden border crisis has claimed many lives of illegal immigrants during the historic surge in crossings as the current administration has done everything in their power to incentivized people to come to the southern border.
Just these past weeks in the area around Eagle Pass, Texas, multiple illegal immigrants have drowned as they attempted to cross the Rio Grande. Fox News National Correspondent Bryan Llenas recently witnessed a man drown in a popular crossing spot.
*Graphic Video*: A 38 yr-old Nicaraguan man drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande River into Eagle Pass Texas. Video show his friend holds onto a pillar. National Guard was there. Guardsman told me they’ve been ordered not to do water rescues after SPC. Evans drowned. pic.twitter.com/VWxXW5RrmP
— Bryan Llenas (@bryanllenas) May 2, 2022
The Washington Post published a story last week that highlighted the growing number of deaths...stemming from the border wall system built under former President Donald Trump because it is manmade:
"Since 2019, when the barrier’s height was raised to 30 feet along much of the border in California, the number of patients arriving at the UC San Diego Medical Center’s trauma ward after falling off the structure has jumped fivefold, to 375, the physicians found. Falling deaths at the barrier went from zero to 16 during that time, according to the report, citing records maintained by the San Diego county medical examiner."
...
"Migrants attempting to evade capture have drowned in the Rio Grande, died of exposure in South Texas and Arizona, and disappeared into the Pacific Ocean during smuggling attempts at sea. What’s different is that the border wall is a man-made obstacle that poses a lethal danger and public health challenge where one did not exist previously."
In addition to the increase in deaths, there has been an increasing number of injuries when a person falls off the wall and survives. To be clear, it is sad when people die trying to enter the United States. It makes it even sadder when the deaths are the result of those same people being incentivized to come by the United States government when they should be focused on deterring illegal immigration.
Maybe they shouldn’t be climbing over it in the first place… t.co/rm3M89HnGD
— Rep Andy Biggs (@repandybiggsaz) May 1, 2022
Ummmm, so you want us to feel bad for people illegally breaking into this country? I say we tack on 10-15 ft minimum. t.co/mMm5c9fDqy
— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) April 30, 2022
Stop trying to be illegal aliens. t.co/Uof986FGwY
— Kurt Schlichter (@kurtschlichter) April 30, 2022
WaPo is horrified that about 10 people a month get hurt falling off the wall...
Probably more than 10 people a month OD on fentanyl carried across unprotected sections of the border
Probably more than 10 women a month are sex trafficked across open sections of the border
Etc. t.co/kP2MZ1u0Pk
— Kyle Hooten (@kylehooten2) April 30, 2022
Then don’t climb the wall… t.co/9E1C6ej975
— Nathan Brand (@nathanbrandwa) April 30, 2022
The press is finally looking at the border crisis…but just to criticize Trump t.co/oGMvtc5ORS
— Brent Scher (@brentscher) May 1, 2022
Julio Rosas Posted: May 02, 2022 2:15 PM
Washington Post Roasted for Shaming Trump's Wall Causing Deaths of Illegal Crossers
The Biden border crisis has claimed many lives of illegal immigrants during the historic surge in crossings as the current administration has done everything in their power to incentivized people to come to the southern border.
Just these past weeks in the area around Eagle Pass, Texas, multiple illegal immigrants have drowned as they attempted to cross the Rio Grande. Fox News National Correspondent Bryan Llenas recently witnessed a man drown in a popular crossing spot.
*Graphic Video*: A 38 yr-old Nicaraguan man drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande River into Eagle Pass Texas. Video show his friend holds onto a pillar. National Guard was there. Guardsman told me they’ve been ordered not to do water rescues after SPC. Evans drowned. pic.twitter.com/VWxXW5RrmP
— Bryan Llenas (@bryanllenas) May 2, 2022
The Washington Post published a story last week that highlighted the growing number of deaths...stemming from the border wall system built under former President Donald Trump because it is manmade:
"Since 2019, when the barrier’s height was raised to 30 feet along much of the border in California, the number of patients arriving at the UC San Diego Medical Center’s trauma ward after falling off the structure has jumped fivefold, to 375, the physicians found. Falling deaths at the barrier went from zero to 16 during that time, according to the report, citing records maintained by the San Diego county medical examiner."
...
"Migrants attempting to evade capture have drowned in the Rio Grande, died of exposure in South Texas and Arizona, and disappeared into the Pacific Ocean during smuggling attempts at sea. What’s different is that the border wall is a man-made obstacle that poses a lethal danger and public health challenge where one did not exist previously."
In addition to the increase in deaths, there has been an increasing number of injuries when a person falls off the wall and survives. To be clear, it is sad when people die trying to enter the United States. It makes it even sadder when the deaths are the result of those same people being incentivized to come by the United States government when they should be focused on deterring illegal immigration.
Maybe they shouldn’t be climbing over it in the first place… t.co/rm3M89HnGD
— Rep Andy Biggs (@repandybiggsaz) May 1, 2022
Ummmm, so you want us to feel bad for people illegally breaking into this country? I say we tack on 10-15 ft minimum. t.co/mMm5c9fDqy
— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) April 30, 2022
Stop trying to be illegal aliens. t.co/Uof986FGwY
— Kurt Schlichter (@kurtschlichter) April 30, 2022
WaPo is horrified that about 10 people a month get hurt falling off the wall...
Probably more than 10 people a month OD on fentanyl carried across unprotected sections of the border
Probably more than 10 women a month are sex trafficked across open sections of the border
Etc. t.co/kP2MZ1u0Pk
— Kyle Hooten (@kylehooten2) April 30, 2022
Then don’t climb the wall… t.co/9E1C6ej975
— Nathan Brand (@nathanbrandwa) April 30, 2022
The press is finally looking at the border crisis…but just to criticize Trump t.co/oGMvtc5ORS
— Brent Scher (@brentscher) May 1, 2022
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