EXCLUSIVE: Trauma nurse at Texas border town visited by Kamala Harris reveals her hospital is full of migrants suffering Broken Legs, Mashed Spines and Shattered Hips from Falling Over the Border Wall
An exasperated trauma nurse in the border city being visited by
Kamala Harris has revealed her hospital unit is now dangerously packed with migrants injured after leaping from the top of the US-Mexico wall.
Miriam Torres – who works at El Paso's University Medical Center - told DailyMail.com that half her 30 beds are regularly taken by the illegals, who are suffering broken legs, smashed spines and shattered hips.
- Torres said the hospital is so desperate for space that it is now issuing contracts to care homes to take in the injured migrants during their treatment
Torres, 39, said: 'Doctors come in now and just label the patients' charts BWF, standing for border wall fall. It's that routine these days. But it is putting a great strain on the unit.
'These people can often stay with us for up to six weeks, requiring at least two surgeries and an incredible amount of medication.'
She added: 'When Joe Biden took office, almost immediately we started to see the numbers increasing. It has been overwhelming at times.
Women as well as men are brought in with shattered bodies after falling up to 34 feet on the rock-hard ground in their bid to get into the United States. Their ages range from 17 to the mid-50s.
However many illegals suffer leg breaks and need initial surgery followed by the fitting of a metal exterior frame which screws into their affected bones to give them support. These must be removed after around six weeks.
Border Patrol used to keep the illegals in custody throughout the process of their treatment. But Torres told DailyMail.com that the agency now gives them release papers and a court date much earlier if they are eligible – effectively making them the hospital's responsibility.
Torres revealed many colleagues at her hospital voted for the Biden/Harris ticket.
But she added: 'Many of them are our case managers and social workers. But even they are now looking at the situation here with the responsibility and cost of the wall jumpers and thinking, is it worth it?
'One case manager said to me, this is very upsetting. My mom has to pay out of pocket , she won't get this treatment. It starts messing with you after a while.'
Some of those badly injured are women pushed off the top of the wall by heartless 'coyote' people smugglers, Torres revealed.
'The women are held in houses across the border until the coyotes say it's to get them across,' she said. '
They lead them to the wall, but are clueless as to how high it really is. And so they will make them climb, and if they don't jump from the top, they push them over.
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