Immigration Watch International (2): Three migrants trying to illegally enter US have to be rescued after getting stuck atop Trump border wall

Monday, May 30, 2022

Three migrants trying to illegally enter US have to be rescued after getting stuck atop Trump border wall

Three immigrants attempting to illegally enter the U.S had to be rescued by California firefighters when they got stuck atop the southern border wall that former President Trump built.

Members of the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department responded to a call for assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection after three men scaled the 30-foot steel barrier in Tijuana and found they had no way to get back down the other side into the United States.

The three males were summarily taken into custody by Border Patrol agents.

NBC 7 in San Diego reported calls for rescue assistance have increased, owing largely to misleading advice from drug smugglers.

“It’s a very common rescue that we have down here in [Otay Mesa],” Cal Fire San Diego County Capt. Brett Bruno told the outlet. “They can get up in between the fences but they can’t get down on this side without causing significant injury.”

At least 375 migrants have been treated for serious injuries caused by falls from the border wall between 2019 and 2021 in San Diego County, the Daily Mail reported. Conversely, only 67 people were injured in accidents between 2016 and 2019.

A study conducted in April by UC San Diego Health blamed the increase in injuries and deaths on Trump’s executive order of January 2017, which increased the height of the wall to 30 feet across some 4oo-plus miles of the barrier. Prior to that order, some portions of the border wall were as low as six feet.

The study cited 16 fatalities since 2019 where previously there were zero deaths.

“The height increase of the border wall along the San Ysidro and El Centro sectors was touted as making the barrier ‘unclimbable’ but that has not stopped people from attempting to do with consequential results,” wrote Dr. Amy Liepert, the UC San Diego Health medical director of acute care surgery.

“Additional capacity and associated costs were not accounted for in the federally appropriated funds to reinforce and heighten the border barrier system,” Liepert continued. “Hospital costs for border wall-injured immigrants at UC San Diego Health alone are estimated to be approximately $13 million between 2019 and 2021.”

“This is a local public health crisis that has worsened trauma center bed capacity, resulting in staff shortages and has taxed our extremely dedicated health care professionals,” wrote Dr. Jay Doucet, the division chief of trauma and surgical critical care at UC San Diego Health. “It is also a humanitarian crisis in which people are being severely injured or dying at the border, and because this is happening it is impacting available access to trauma care for San Diegans as well.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says drug traffickers continually misrepresent the dangers of trying to scale the border wall to those seeking to enter the U.S. illegally.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/05/25/three-migrants-trying-to-illegally-enter-us-have-to-be-rescued-after-getting-stuck-atop-trump-border-wall-1242292/

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Immigration Watch International (2)

Monday, May 30, 2022

Three migrants trying to illegally enter US have to be rescued after getting stuck atop Trump border wall

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