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A Guatemalan migrant woman was found dead after falling from a 30-foot border wall near San Diego. - after screaming for help for 20 minutes.
According to Customs and and Border Protection, the 24-year-old - who has not been named - screamed for help while hanging on before she dropped and hit her head on the concrete on March 21.
The incident took place at the wall about three miles west of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, one of three ports in the San Diego-Tijuana area, according to a Border Patrol investigation. Migrants falling to their death has turned into an epidemic in the region since Joe Biden took office.
Around 10:27pm on March 21, agents received a call saying a group was moving toward the wall, which is actually a combination of two walls, built with metal posts and an electrical conduit on top.
Border Patrol agents spotted the group between the two walls and noticed the Guatemalan woman on top of the secondary wall, warning her not to climb down as they called for help from the San Diego Fire Department.
A Guatemalan migrant woman was found dead after falling from a 30-foot border wall near San Diego
However, authorities claim she continued to try and scale the wall but found herself unable to make it down from the fence.
The migrant woman began to call for help, with a border agent reassuring her that it was coming.
A ladder was offered around 10:35pm by someone not identified. However, the agent told them they couldn't use them until the fire department showed up.
The agent was also in the process of detaining a second migrant who was walking along the fence on its south side.
Another agent followed shortly after with a fire crew at the opposite side of the woman calling for help.
The second agent and fire crew turned around to drive to a gate closer to the side of the wall where the woman was hanging but the truck was unable to access it.
By 10:48pm, over 20 minutes after she first cried for help, the migrant woman said she couldn't hold any longer, with the agent desperately trying to assure her help was on the way.
Just then, the second agent made it to the side of the wall from which the woman hung. Though both agents told her a fire truck was coming, she reiterated that she could not hold on any longer.
By 10:48pm, over 20 minutes after she first cried for help, the migrant woman said she couldn't hold any longer, with the agent desperately trying to assure her help was on the way
This specific wall has been increased in height recently and with it, a further rash of injuries to migrants
The incident remains under investigation by the San Diego Police Department and San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office, as well as federal officials
But at 10:54pm, the woman fell to her death, suffering massive head trauma from striking the concrete base of the border wall.
She was declared dead just after 11:04pm, when the fire department crew finally arrived.
The incident remains under investigation by the San Diego Police Department and San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office, as well as federal officials.
Officers were wearing body cameras at the time and footage of the incident will be released by CBP once it does not impact the investigations.
This specific wall has been increased in height recently and with it, a further rash of injuries to migrants, according to ABC 10.
At least 19 injuries occurred at that part of the border wall in March alone.
The number of migrants falling from the border wall and being hospitalized with serious injuries has spiraled by 1,000 percent since Joe Biden took office, figures seen by Dailymail.com show.
Hundreds of wall climbers - half of them women - have been admitted to a San Diego hospital a few miles from the border with injuries including shattered legs and ankles, and traumatic brain injuries.
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