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Migrants keep falling off Trump’s 30-foot border wall, some forced to by smugglers, and suffering horrific injuries
Trending Politics ^ | June 22, 2022 | Frank Bojazi

Posted on 07/02/2022 2:54:34 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

Former President Donald Trump’s commissioner of Customs and Border Protection told the local newspaper in El Paso, Texas that the new 30-foot high border wall’s steel beams were “impressive,” when he toured a stretch of it in August 2020.

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Special Report: Spike in undocumented immigrants falling from border wall takes toll on border community

“It really does, I think, physically represent exactly what we’ve been trying to do since Day One. That is to give Border Patrol increased operational capacity to do what they need to do to protect the country,” Commissioner Mark Morgan said.

Nearly two years after, illegal border crossings are at an all-time high, while since October 2021, Border Patrol agents and local paramedics have responded to 229 injuries, including some fatalities, as migrants scale the Mexican side of the steel barrier and then fall 30 feet onto U.S. soil.

A teenage girl who, agents say, fell from the top of the wall and was found alone at the bottom, is the aftermath of one of the most recent injuries. She struggled to catch her breath and writhed in pain as paramedics secured her to a stretcher and loaded her into an ambulance.

Agent Valeria Morales said: “This little girl was exploited by a smuggler. She was forced to scale the border barrier and she fell.”

This is actually a common scene, according to Morales: Smugglers build ladders that can scale the fence and force migrants to the top, often telling them they can scale the fence on the way down. However, many lack the upper body strength to do it or are not able to hold on to the hot steel posts.

Morales said that broken legs, broken ankles and even brain and spinal injuries are common.

The Trump administration built 133 miles of bollard-style fencing in Texas and New Mexico, in the Border Patrol’s El Paso sector, which includes the entire border between Mexico and New Mexico. A portion of the earlier barrier, made of two layers of mesh netting, which was easier to cut through, was replaced by the new fence. Some stretches of mesh netting remain, and Morales and her fellow agents often wonder why smugglers force migrants to scale the wall rather than cut through the mesh. It speaks to the inhumane way smugglers view migrants, they say.

The Border Patrol must also dedicate time and personnel to respond to emergencies at the border wall, in addition to the human toll.



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1 posted on 07/02/2022 2:54:34 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump’s wall?

It’s Americas wall and they don’t belong anywhere near it.

Pure Darwinism at work…


2 posted on 07/02/2022 2:57:35 PM PDT by Magnatron
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Morales said that broken legs, broken ankles and even brain and spinal injuries are common.

For some reason I don't feel the slightest bit sorry for any of them.

3 posted on 07/02/2022 3:00:24 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa ruk America. )
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"Car Jackers Injured While Fleeing Police"
4 posted on 07/02/2022 3:02:43 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Bullish

Morales said that broken legs, broken ankles and even brain and spinal injuries are common. For some reason I don’t feel the slightest bit sorry for any of them.


But we get to pay for their medical treatment nonetheless.


5 posted on 07/02/2022 3:03:50 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: SoConPubbie

That is sorta the point…


6 posted on 07/02/2022 3:04:27 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (The Reset is real…)
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To: hanamizu

“But we get to pay for their medical treatment nonetheless.”

Wouldn’t that depend on which side of the fence they fell?


7 posted on 07/02/2022 3:05:21 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: SoConPubbie

Put spikes and the bottom.
If they’re dead they won’t need medical care.


8 posted on 07/02/2022 3:05:29 PM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: SoConPubbie

Good engineering performaning as designed


9 posted on 07/02/2022 3:06:04 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Little Ray

I always thought concertina wire would be a nice touch…


10 posted on 07/02/2022 3:06:59 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (The Reset is real…)
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To: SoConPubbie

🙂


11 posted on 07/02/2022 3:07:49 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

We have concentenia wire at the top and bottom of the fence. Problem is that they cut it from the Southside or use a stick to push it away from the fence. I have sat in the hospital with a lot of people who have fallen from the fence some have eventually died. Falling from that height is no joke.


12 posted on 07/02/2022 3:14:16 PM PDT by 98charlie
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To: SoConPubbie

The wildlife has to eat too.


13 posted on 07/02/2022 3:14:30 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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Wall scaling attempts could be interrupted, actively discouraged, rendered impossible or, at least, notoriously unfruitful. The Brandon administration does everything it can to avoid doing anything it could do to minimize the frequency of these events and the news stories that flow from them.

Well-designed border fences don’t kill illegal border-crossers. Drug- and human-trafficking thugs kill illegal border crossers.

But we’ll foolishly dismantle perfectly-functioning segments of border fence in response to stories of this type.

Which of course inly serves to perpetuate the fake news narrative and advance the society-destroying policies of the Brandon Administration.


14 posted on 07/02/2022 3:17:51 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: hanamizu

To cut medical expenses make the wall 50 FOOT TALL.


15 posted on 07/02/2022 3:24:04 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Magnatron

"Migrants Invaders keep falling off Trump’s 30-foot border wall,..."

Fixed it for them.

16 posted on 07/02/2022 3:24:43 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: SoConPubbie

Headline could read ‘Illegal aliens and human smugglers, encouraged by Biden to sneak into a sovereign nation, are falling off the border wall as well as dying of heat stroke in the back of a truck attempting to get into the US.’


17 posted on 07/02/2022 3:25:06 PM PDT by week 71
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To: SoConPubbie

Good. Stupid and illegal should hurt.


18 posted on 07/02/2022 3:25:06 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: SoConPubbie

BiXiden needs to send Milley[Pershing 2.0] into Northern Mexico to clean out the Cartels.


19 posted on 07/02/2022 3:25:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: All

The wall is there for a reason


20 posted on 07/02/2022 3:25:56 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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