Since he started volunteering two months ago for weekend shifts at a clinic in one of the largest shelters in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, MexicoDr. Brian Elmore treated about 100 migrants for respiratory viruses and a handful of more serious emergencies, the Associated Press reported.
But what worries him most is something else.
Many migrants are traumatized after their long journeys north.
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The “worsening trauma” experienced by migrants, the AP reported, often involves witnessing murders and enduring kidnappings and sexual assaults.
Most of our patients have PTSD symptoms – I want to start screening for every patient,” Elmore, an emergency physician at Clinica Hope, told the AP.
The city of El Paso, Texas has never seen so many migrant crossings, according to the deputy city manager of El Paso. Professionals including doctors, social workers, clergy and law enforcement say growing numbers of migrants are experiencing violence that amounts to torture, the AP reported.
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Catholic nonprofit Hope Border Institute opened the clinic last fall with help from Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, TXwhich borders Juarez, the AP said.
The Hope Border Institute (HOPE) brings the perspective of Catholic Social Teaching to address the unique realities of our US-Mexico border region,” the group’s website reads.
“Through a robust program of research and policy work, leadership development and action, we work to strengthen justice and deepen solidarity across border regions.”
The network of shelters is so overwhelmed with newcomers and migrants that only the most serious cases can be cared for, the AP reported.
Professionals including doctors, social workers, clergy and law enforcement say growing numbers of migrants are experiencing violence amounting to torture – and arriving at the US-Mexico border with a desperate need for medical and trauma-informed medical care. mental health treatmentreported the AP.
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But resources for this specialized care are scarce.
And the network of shelters is so overwhelmed with new arrivals and migrants that only the most serious cases can be cared for, according to AP information.
Migrants, many from Central America and Venezuela, walk along the Huehuetan highway in Chiapas state, Mexico, June 7, 2022. “We welcome the most vulnerable people,” a manager said of cases about what health professionals and others are seeing right now. .
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A specific example, as one case manager described it: “A pregnant 13-year-old girl…incipient gang rapes, and so on [she] needs help with childcare and college.
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Zury Reyes Borrero, a case manager in Arizona with the Center for Victims of Torture, visited the girl when she gave birth – and describes the circumstances.
“We welcome the most vulnerable people. Some don’t even realize they’re in the United States,” the case manager told the AP.
Dozens of migrants are shown heading for the US border in October 2021. The “aggravated trauma” experienced by migrants today often involves witnessing murders and enduring kidnappings and sexual assaults, reports the Associated Press.
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Over the past six months, Reyes Borrero and a colleague have helped around 100 migrants at Catholic Community Services’ Casa Alitas, a shelter in Tucson, Arizonashe said.
Each visit with a migrant can take hours.
Social workers try to build rapport with individuals — and focus on empowering them, Reyes Borrero told the AP.
This group of people may not have a sure memory.
This group of people “may not have a sure memory,” said Sarah Howell, who runs a clinical practice and nonprofit that treats migrant torture survivors in Houston, TX.
When she visits patients in their new Texas communities, Howell said, they routinely introduce relatives or neighbors who also need help with severe trauma; Yet they would lack the stability and security necessary for healing.
A group of illegal immigrants are gathered at the southern border of the United States.
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Most migrants need “first aid mental health” as well as long-term care which is even more difficult to organize once they disperse from shelters in the border area to communities across the country, noted another professional.
Without treatment, such trauma can escalate into requiring psychiatric care instead of therapy and self-help, Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute, told the AP.
Natural perils like deadly snakes and rivers only add to the risk.
Service providers and migrants say the most dangerous place on journeys filled with peril at every stage is “la selva” – the Darien Gap jungle separating Colombia from Panama, traversed by increasing numbers of Venezuelans, Cubans and Haitians who first moved to South America and are now seeking a safer life in the United States, the AP reported.
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Natural perils like deadly snakes and rivers only add to the risks of an area plagued by bandits preying on migrants, the same source noted.
The “root cause” of the crisis
Meanwhile, more than four million migrants have flocked to the southern border from Vice President Kamala Harris was tasked with addressing the “root cause” of the crisis nearly two years ago, Fox News Digital reported over the weekend.
Vice President Kamala Harris departs Air Force Two after arriving at Aurora Municipal Airport in Aurora, Illinois on June 24, 2022.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection tracked 233,000 border encounters in November.
That’s a 35% increase from when Harris was given his role on mass migration there in March 2021.
These encounters are expected to increase after Title 42 expires, pandemic-era politics under President Donald Trump which allows border agents to turn back migrants at the border.
The White House in December could not define exactly what Harris is doing in his role to combat mass migration.
“I have nothing to say about what this job looks like,” said press attaché Karine Jean-Pierre during a press briefing, when asked about the role of the vice-president.
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The vice president’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
The Associated Press, along with Fox News Digital’s Patrick Hauf, contributed reporting.
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