SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) —Two migrants have been hospitalized after falling from the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego Monday night, U.S. Border Patrol officials confirmed.
Agents encountered the two women last night around 9:30 p.m. According to Border Patrol, they were complaining of injuries sustained in a reported fall.
Authorities did not confirm the nature of their wounds, but said medical personnel responded to the scene and determined they needed “higher level care.” The two women were transported to a nearby hospital and remain in an unknown condition.
No additional details about the incident were immediately available.
Injuries sustained from the border wall, both fatal and non-life-threatening, have been on the rise along the San Diego sector of the U.S.-Mexico border over the last few years, following the Trump Administration’s move to increase sections of the structure’s height to 30 feet.
In 2019, prior to this change, UC San Diego Health reported treating fewer than 60 patients who had fallen from the border wall. However, that number jumped to upwards of 450 two years later.
This year so far, at least five migrants have died as a result of a border wall fall, while dozens more have been injured.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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