Last month, 70 people were treated for border crossing injuries at UC San Diego Health.
According to Falck, the 911 ambulance provider in San Diego, emergency crews responded to at least 10 falls on Saturday alone.Goward says they’ve responded to an increasing number of border falls in recent months.This weekend, Falck received 30 calls to the border and took 10 people who had fallen off the border wall to nearby hospitals. Goward says those with traumatic injuries were taken to UCSD or Mercy Hospital.
“It’s not surprising,” said Pedro Rios, an immigrant rights advocate and director, American Friends Service Committee. “We see people cross here regularly who have actually scaled the border wall.” “There really aren’t that many opportunities for people to present themselves at the port to make an asylum claim," Rios said."And so people are forced to cross into the U.S. through extremely dangerous methods. One is attempting to scale the border wall.”
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