This is a change of pace. The mainstream news media usually does pieces on how dangerous it is for illegal immigrants to cross the Rio Grande to reach the United States. You’d think it would be on their minds this week after a Texas National Guardsman drowned after trying to rescue migrants (it wasn’t on the White House’s mind until a reporter brought it up, and then it was Texas’ problem, not President Biden’s). No, now we’re hearing about the grim toll of President Donald Trump’s border wall. What’s the problem now? It seems that illegal immigrants are falling off of it after trying to climb it and ending up in the hospital.
The border wall Trump called unclimbable is taking a grim toll.
Since 2019, when it was raised to 30 feet along much of the border in California, the number of patients coming to UCSD Medical Center’s trauma ward after falling off jumped fivefold to 375. https://t.co/Qm8anPRX3B pic.twitter.com/sGuNECSjeB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 30, 2022
Falling deaths at the barrier went from zero to 16 during that time.
Customs and Border Protection officials say they do not tally deaths and injuries from falls. But new statistics in JAMA Surgery provide one of the first attempts to measure the toll. https://t.co/sf0PujWreE
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 30, 2022
How about not trying to climb the fence?
So 30 feet isn't enough, let's do 50.
— swpz (@swpz_reaper) April 30, 2022
https://twitter.com/TonyBrunoShow/status/1520481512520626176
Seems like it’s working then. Great work!
— Red Handed (@RedHandedHand) April 30, 2022
https://twitter.com/RealRing77Eric/status/1520430348257091584
Great, don't climb it then.
— Galacticos (@waltermakotore7) April 30, 2022
https://twitter.com/DrNealArmstrong/status/1520493984661098497
Walls are deterrents, just like my locked front door. It gives the person on the other side the option of going back, or take their chances on what happens after they go further. If there is no wall, they know there is no harm coming their way.
— Scott Eversole (@Scott4Eversole) April 30, 2022
Seems like its doing its job, money well spent
— misinformationmaxxer (@misinfomaxxer) April 30, 2022
So it’s working?
— TruthOverParty (@TruthOParty) April 30, 2022
Have they considered not climbing the wall?
— Taylor Cheshire (@Tchesh24) April 30, 2022
This is what the Washington Post thinks of when you mention the border crisis.
Related:
Bill Melugin shares aerial shots of $120 million worth of steel meant for border wall that’s ‘going to waste’ thanks to Biden https://t.co/socBHbDprT
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 11, 2021