Please make it a point to contact the Dr. cited in this piece. Let her know that Mexico is responsible for these interlopers, not the United States. Moreover, feel free to contact the insolent author of this piece and tell her white Americans are not obliged to allow for their own displacement. Info below.
There are hidden costs to those towering walls that some in Congress still think are insufficient to secure the southern border.
The costs are paid by you and by people that Dr. Lynn Gries says are “depersonalized and seen as some sort of enemy.” She’s a trauma surgeon at the University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson.
And yes, she’s talking about people who get hurt trying to cross the border illegally.
The most seriously injured are brought to UAMC, a Level 1 trauma center.
Gries says, “It’s awful to watch.” But she also says you need to look a little closer at the unintended consequences of border policies.“We can’t make good decisions unless we are aware of this,” she says.
UAMC takes care of about 170 border crossers a year who are too ill or severely injured to be handled at local hospitals. This includes people found near death in the desert and those who were packed into unsafe vehicles that crashed.
But the fence is the untold story.
Dr. Lynn Gries
Office Fax(520) 626-5016
(email)lgries@surgery.arizona.edu
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Linda Valdez
http://www.azcentral.com/insiders/author/valdez/
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