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Media: Trump Border Wall Designed to Protect Americans is a Health Threat to Illegals
Posted on 5/7/22 at 9:49 am
Posted on 5/7/22 at 9:49 am
According to this writer we should be more concerned with injuries and deaths to illegal immigrants trying to climb the border wall than to the potential injuries and deaths of American citizens that illegal immigrants could cause once they are across the border. Wonder if Carmen Valencia, the P:roducer would feel the same way if her family was the victim of violence caused by illegals?
The media is so despicable and deplorable.
Migrant injuries and deaths increase at an alarming rate along Trump's border wall
Carmen Valencia Producer
Doctors are sounding the alarm about a public health crisis near San Diego: Immigrants trying to enter the U.S. by climbing the 30-foot border wall erected during the Trump administration are suffering life-threatening injuries.
Dr. Amy Liepert, a trauma surgeon at University of California San Diego Health, said patients trying to come in from Tijuana are experiencing “gruesome” brain injuries, as well as skull and facial bone fractures.
“In the trauma center, we see only the most severe injuries that are potentially life-threatening or might need emergent, operative intervention,” Liepert told Yahoo News.
She said data collected by her team shows that since 2019 — when the border wall was raised to 30 feet in areas of California under then-President Donald Trump — the number of fall-related injuries and deaths has risen significantly. From 2016 to 2018, doctors registered 67 patients in the trauma unit. From 2019 to 2021, that number jumped to 375.
“We know children are falling. We've seen men and women. We've taken care of pregnant women,” Liepert said. “It seems to us that patients that come in tend to be perhaps less athletic or a bit heavier. Maybe they're not as strong to successfully navigate the wall.”
She has also said, “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.”
According to the data, published in the medical journal JAMA Surgery on April 29, no deaths were reported before 2019; however, in the past three years, doctors said 16 deaths had been related to border-wall injuries.
“These are very severe compound fractures that the bone is in unusually multiple pieces. There's a lot of soft-tissue damage. A fair number of these patients need to have multiple trips to the operating room,” Liepert said.
Another trauma center in San Diego, at Scripps Mercy Hospital, is also seeing a dramatic increase in migrants seeking medical help. Vishal Bansal, director of trauma at the hospital, told the Washington Post that in 2020 doctors treated 41 migrants for injuries related to crossing the border wall; in 2021 the number jumped to 139.
“In order to address the border, we trade on and off,” Liepert said of treating injured migrants. “And so now that we’re into May, it’s the other trauma center’s primary responsibility to take patients transporting from the border wall with any injuries that occur there.”
Most patients do not have the financial means to pay for their medical needs due to their circumstances or immigration status. The money often comes out of the hospital’s resources. Over the last three years, Liepert said, the hospital has spent $13 million alone to cover these expenses.
“Some of the patients may be able to have some funds that they pay for. If they remain within Border Patrol custody, they may pay for some of the services. But oftentimes these patients do not have, as far as I know, there is not a funding source for them,” she said.
Liepert said that in the midst of the immigration public health crisis, it’s important to remember the conditions people are facing in their home countries and why they are willing to risk their lives to come to the U.S.
She added that it’s really important to make sure that "anytime we’re having these national conversations and public policy conversations, we have to take a wide view and see how it impacts our local health care systems and other parts of our society on the United States side, because there are a lot of unintended consequences."
The media is so despicable and deplorable.
Migrant injuries and deaths increase at an alarming rate along Trump's border wall
Carmen Valencia Producer
Doctors are sounding the alarm about a public health crisis near San Diego: Immigrants trying to enter the U.S. by climbing the 30-foot border wall erected during the Trump administration are suffering life-threatening injuries.
Dr. Amy Liepert, a trauma surgeon at University of California San Diego Health, said patients trying to come in from Tijuana are experiencing “gruesome” brain injuries, as well as skull and facial bone fractures.
“In the trauma center, we see only the most severe injuries that are potentially life-threatening or might need emergent, operative intervention,” Liepert told Yahoo News.
She said data collected by her team shows that since 2019 — when the border wall was raised to 30 feet in areas of California under then-President Donald Trump — the number of fall-related injuries and deaths has risen significantly. From 2016 to 2018, doctors registered 67 patients in the trauma unit. From 2019 to 2021, that number jumped to 375.
“We know children are falling. We've seen men and women. We've taken care of pregnant women,” Liepert said. “It seems to us that patients that come in tend to be perhaps less athletic or a bit heavier. Maybe they're not as strong to successfully navigate the wall.”
She has also said, “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.”
According to the data, published in the medical journal JAMA Surgery on April 29, no deaths were reported before 2019; however, in the past three years, doctors said 16 deaths had been related to border-wall injuries.
“These are very severe compound fractures that the bone is in unusually multiple pieces. There's a lot of soft-tissue damage. A fair number of these patients need to have multiple trips to the operating room,” Liepert said.
Another trauma center in San Diego, at Scripps Mercy Hospital, is also seeing a dramatic increase in migrants seeking medical help. Vishal Bansal, director of trauma at the hospital, told the Washington Post that in 2020 doctors treated 41 migrants for injuries related to crossing the border wall; in 2021 the number jumped to 139.
“In order to address the border, we trade on and off,” Liepert said of treating injured migrants. “And so now that we’re into May, it’s the other trauma center’s primary responsibility to take patients transporting from the border wall with any injuries that occur there.”
Most patients do not have the financial means to pay for their medical needs due to their circumstances or immigration status. The money often comes out of the hospital’s resources. Over the last three years, Liepert said, the hospital has spent $13 million alone to cover these expenses.
“Some of the patients may be able to have some funds that they pay for. If they remain within Border Patrol custody, they may pay for some of the services. But oftentimes these patients do not have, as far as I know, there is not a funding source for them,” she said.
Liepert said that in the midst of the immigration public health crisis, it’s important to remember the conditions people are facing in their home countries and why they are willing to risk their lives to come to the U.S.
She added that it’s really important to make sure that "anytime we’re having these national conversations and public policy conversations, we have to take a wide view and see how it impacts our local health care systems and other parts of our society on the United States side, because there are a lot of unintended consequences."
Posted on 5/7/22 at 9:52 am to tigersbb
Weakness is strength
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Posted on 5/7/22 at 9:53 am to tigersbb
That's why we should electrify the wall.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 9:53 am to tigersbb
Try entering legally through the front door instead you insurgent criminals
Posted on 5/7/22 at 9:54 am to tigersbb
Sounds like it’s working as intended.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 9:55 am to tigersbb
Uh, if you try to climb a wall that's built to prevent climbing then getting hurt is on you.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 9:56 am to tigersbb
quote:
Carmen Valencia Producer
What fund/NGO is financing this woman?
Posted on 5/7/22 at 9:56 am to tigersbb
So, the US is responsible for the well being of ILLEGAL people?
Screw these idiots! This is nothing but a huge vote grab, period.
Screw these idiots! This is nothing but a huge vote grab, period.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 9:57 am to tigersbb
quote:
Migrant injuries and deaths increase at an alarming rate along Trump's border wall
They'd increase even more, for a time, if the US adopted my strategy.
Then, they'd stop completely.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 10:01 am to tiggerthetooth
"From 2016 to 2018, doctors registered 67 patients in the trauma unit. From 2019 to 2021, that number jumped to 375."
So it is only 375 people over a 3-year period and they were injured while committing a crime.
Sounds like the wall is working. Why should I care about this?
So it is only 375 people over a 3-year period and they were injured while committing a crime.
Sounds like the wall is working. Why should I care about this?
Posted on 5/7/22 at 10:02 am to tigersbb
This same media would be claiming that barbed wire fences keeping people out of private property are a health threat to the minority community.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 10:03 am to tigersbb
How many American lives have been taken by illegals?
How many by fentanyl coming through our border?
Last year the majority of the 100k overdoses were from fentanyl.
How many by fentanyl coming through our border?
Last year the majority of the 100k overdoses were from fentanyl.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 10:06 am to tigersbb
quote:
She said data collected by her team shows that since 2019 — when the border wall was raised to 30 feet in areas of California under then-President Donald Trump — the number of fall-related injuries and deaths has risen significantly. From 2016 to 2018, doctors registered 67 patients in the trauma unit. From 2019 to 2021, that number jumped to 375.
Only agenda driven advocates would collect this kind of data. Bet its done under a grant funded by taxpayers.
quote:
“These are very severe compound fractures that the bone is in unusually multiple pieces. There's a lot of soft-tissue damage. A fair number of these patients need to have multiple trips to the operating room,” Liepert said.
Oh, the horror
quote:.
Liepert said that in the midst of the immigration public health crisis, it’s important to remember the conditions people are facing in their home countries and why they are willing to risk their lives to come to the U.S.
The end always justify the means to the left.
quote:
She added that it’s really important to make sure that "anytime we’re having these national conversations and public policy conversations, we have to take a wide view and see how it impacts our local health care systems and other parts of our society on the United States side, because there are a lot of unintended consequences."
Shouldn't that wide view include the harm these people might inflict upon law abiding American citizens? Not according to these deranged libreal advocates.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 10:28 am to GeauxTigerTM
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They'd increase even more, for a time, if the US adopted my strategy.
That requires a lot of manpower. 500,000v fence and land mines would work 24\7\365.
Regarding the existing Trump wall can we add spikes to either side, like this to impale the invaders. It would reduce the need for medical attention. And if we leave their rotting corpses there it might act as a deterrent.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 10:37 am to tigersbb
They really are gonna try and tear it down aren’t they?
Posted on 5/7/22 at 10:42 am to tigersbb
Sounds like 30 feet wasn’t high enough
Posted on 5/7/22 at 10:42 am to tigersbb
If our establishment Left and RINOs had honored and actually enforced existing law for the past 40+ years (at the very least) there’d likely never been a need for a wall.
But we know the Establishment never had any interest in doing so. More votes for the Left and cheap labor for the Country Club eGOP. Screw Americans or American jobs, right Establishment boot lickers?
But we know the Establishment never had any interest in doing so. More votes for the Left and cheap labor for the Country Club eGOP. Screw Americans or American jobs, right Establishment boot lickers?
This post was edited on 5/7/22 at 10:43 am
Posted on 5/7/22 at 10:58 am to tigersbb
Who cares? They are ILLEGAL. It's on them, not us, no matter how loud leftist scream.
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