So, let’s say it’s 2am and you decide to take a walk through one of the worst neighborhoods in Chicago, run by the Latin Kings, wearing the colors of a rival gang. You get caught, beat up, robbed, and maybe even killed. You put yourself in that bad situation. Or, you think you’re an Influencer, and you decide to take photos with wild baby bears, then momma bear comes back and mauls you. Or take photos at the edge of a cliff and you fall. Who’s fault?
Trump’s border wall has resulted in ‘unprecedented’ increase in migrant injuries and death
Donald Trump’s “impenetrable” border wall has resulted in increased migrant deaths and devastating injuries from falling, according to a new study that analyzed the effect of the new barriers on a southern California hospital.
The US replaced more than 400 miles of existing barriers that were between six and 17ft tall with a 30-ft steel wall, and added nearly 50 miles of new barrier under the former president, who campaigned on the promise of “securing” America’s borders and routinely demonized migrants.
The wall has been far from Trump’s promise of being “virtually impenetrable” – smugglers breached what he called the “Rolls-Royce” of barriers more than 3,000 times since its construction. Though the former president said his wall “can’t be climbed”, migrants have continued scaling the barrier, facing great peril. Last month a woman died while attempting to scale the wall in eastern Arizona after her leg became trapped in a climbing harness and she was left hanging upside down.
A study, published in the Jama surgery journal on Friday, found an unprecedented increase in the number of falls from the border wall in San Diego and Imperial counties. The report is one of the first efforts to calculate the effects of Trump’s wall on migrants, according to the Washington Post, as federal officials don’t track deaths and injuries related to falls from the barrier.
If you get shot trying to breach the White House fence to say hi to Dimentia Joe, or, fall off and break your arm, is the wall to blame, or you for trying to climb it? If someone gets ventilated with 9mm while trying to break into a home, who’s fault? If you get arrested trying to enter Mongolia’s Forbidden Zone, who’s fault? Don’t try and cross into the United State illegally. It really is that simple. These illegals put themselves in harm’s way. They did this.
WWDJTD? Line the border with machine gun toting agents and shoot the intruders if they so much as step one foot in America, right?
Land mines. Much more efficient.
Automated miniguns. The engineering isn’t even that hard.
And we should care…why, exactly?
The story may as well be about all the immigrants who are harmed by being forced to stay in their own countries. Obviously being in the USA is a sweet deal. Also obviously, all those people crossing the border don’t have the skills to make a country this nice or the skills to even maintain it. If they did, then their own countries would be nice enough to stay in.
If you are breaking into someone else’s home, and a fatal misfortune befalls you in the process, you have gotten what you deserve.
Many borders are lined with spikes and concertina wire; the border fence should be heavily topped with concertina wire, and other obstacles to prevent climbing it.