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Authorities said that a migrant woman had been injured after trying to climb a fence at the US-Mexico border with her two young children.
Border Patrol Officer Tekae Michael said that the 26-year-old Guatemalan woman had fallen close to the San Ysidro harbor on Friday night and landed on pieces of barricades. frame that pierced one side of her body. The paramedics took her to the hospital for treatment.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that children ages 3 and 5 were not injured. The woman told agents that she was not part of the caravan of migrants from Central America and traveling to the Mexican border town of Tijuana.
Reinforcement bars are part of ongoing work to replace fences that are decades old. This has nothing to do with the recent US Army mission to fortify the fence in response to the caravan.
