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A mother was impaled in front of her young children while trying to climb over the border fence near the San Ysidro, California Port of Entry.
On Friday, San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents found a 26-year-old Guatemalan woman who had fallen from the fence after trying to enter the country with her children, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in anews release.
After falling from the fence, the woman landed on a reinforcing bar, which pierced through her side and buttocks.
The San Diego Union-Tribunereportedthat the Guatemalan woman climbed the fence east of the port of entry, a site where construction workers have been trying to replace old fencing with a new barrier.
A woman was impaled trying to cross into America.US Customs and Border Protection
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the woman is in stable condition and being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Her children, a three-year-old and a five-year-old, were also taken to the hospital for evaluation to see if they fell and were injured but were later released into Border Patrol custody. It is not clear at this time if the woman was carrying the children when she fell or if she got them down safely.
The news of the woman’s injury comes in the wake of the U.S. Customs and Border officersuse of tear gasto deter migrants attempting to reach the U.S. on Sunday before PresidentDonald Trumpthreatened to close the border altogether.
U.S. border patrol uses tear gas on migrants at San Ysidro crossing.David Guzmán/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock
U.S. officials also closed a border crossing near San Diego for a few hours on Sunday.
Children were among the migrants who faced tear gas, CNNreported.
“We ran, but when you run the gas asphyxiates you more,” 23-year-old Honduran Ana Zuniga, who had her 3-year-old daughter Valery in her arms,saidto the Associated Press.
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On Monday morning, Trumptweetedthat some of the migrants are “stone cold criminals” and that he would not be opposed to closing the border altogether.
source: people.com
