Guatemalan teens scaling 18-foot U.S. border wall injured - and taxpayers get to foot the bill Posted: Dec 11th, 2018 - 9:55 am
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Two teenagers from Guatemala were “severely injured” in Arizona Friday after they fell while scaling an 18-foot border wall that separates the United States and Mexico, federal officials said.
The first girl, a 14-year-old, tumbled from the wall around 1 p.m., seriously injuring her back near the San Luis Port of Entry outside of Yuma, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents said in a news release Monday. The girl was traveling into the U.S. with her mother. Moments later, a second girl — an unaccompanied 17-year-old — also fell from the wall, hurting her ankle, border agents said.
Four other Guatemalans crossed the border wall illegally with the injured teens.
“The only legal and safe method of entry into the United States is through a designated Port of Entry,” Carl Landrum, the Yuma sector’s acting chief patrol agent, said in a statement. “People entering our country illegally, at places other than designated Ports of Entry, put themselves and their families in dangerous situations that could result in significant injury or even death.”
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