A UCSDHealth study blames the higher border wall for increase of serious injuries, which have quintupled since 2019. KUSI notes the amount of people attempting to illegally enter the United States has also drastically increased since 2019.
released Friday found that since 2019, the number of high-severity injuries occurring at the U.S.- Mexico border wall in Southern San Diego has quintupled, which UCSD trauma physicians attribute to a height increase of the border wall.
At UC San Diego Health, there were 67 cases of trauma-related incidents due to falls at the border wall from 2016 to 2019. The number jumped to 375 between 2019 and 2021. Fatalities also increased, from zero before 2019 to 16 since then. The wall was raised from a range of eight to 17 feet to its current height of 30 feet.
“Additional capacity and associated costs were not accounted for in the federally appropriated funds to reinforce and heighten the border barrier system,” Liepert said. “Hospital costs for border wall-injured immigrants at UC San Diego Health alone are estimated to be approximately $13 million between 2019 and 2021.”
Due to lack of health insurance and residency status, many patients were not eligible for rehabilitation facilities or post-discharge physical therapy, leading to prolonged hospital stays and impacted hospital access, they wrote.
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