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Up and over: Consequences of raising the United States-Mexico border wall height.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg
August 2023
From the Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery, University of California San Diego Medical Center (W.A.M., L.N.H., A.E.B., J.J.D., T.W.C.); Department of Surgery, Scripps Mercy Hospital (V.B., A.K.); and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Rady Children's Hospital (R.I., B.A.K.), San Diego, California.
Objectives: San Diego County's geographic location lends a unique demographic of migrant patients injured by falls at the United States-Mexico border. To prevent migrant crossings, a 2017 Executive Order allocated funds to increase the southern California border wall height from 10 ft to 30 ft, which was completed in December 2019. We hypothesized that the elevated border wall height is associated with increased major trauma, resource utilization, and health care costs.
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