'Border walls don't stop immigration, but they do cause deaths,' says ReeceJonesUH.
Under Trump, a 30-foot wall was installed across more than 400 miles, often replacing shorter barriers. The doctors focused on admissions to their trauma center after the new wall went up in California's Imperial and San Diego Counties.
Hector Almeida, a 33-year-old dentist from Cuba who was sent to UC San Diego Health after fracturing his left leg Monday, told theAccording to the paper,"Smugglers led his group to the wall with a ladder and told them to climb up and slide down the other side, said Almeida, who said he saw one woman fall and break both legs, and an older man with a severe head injury."what happened to a Mexican family trying to flee drug cartel violence after they were turned away by U.S.
It was only after she reached the Border Patrol station that she learned that her 14-year-old daughter, whom the smugglers sent with an earlier group, had fallen from the 30-foot wall. The surge also coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic, which has strained the U.S. healthcare system, the paper points out, adding:
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