From 2020 to 2023, 33 migrant drowning deaths were reported in the Pacific Ocean along the county's coast, compared with one death in the previous four years
Migrant drowning deaths along the San Diego County coastline spiked in the four years after sections of the U.S.-Mexico border wall were replaced with taller ones, according to a UC San Diego study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. From 2020 to 2023 — after the U.S.
She hopes their research will help contribute to understanding what she called an “emergent public health issue,' including better recognition of the risk factors of those who don't survive versus those who do. The rise in drownings hasn't been limited to the ocean. The study found a jump in such deaths across the U.S.
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