This doctor treated migrants’ severe injuries at the US-Mexico wall: ‘Political decisions made it as violent as possible’

<p>Dr Brian Elmore witnessed a public health crisis unfold at the border near El Paso. He reflects on why it was like a ‘perverse Groundhog Day’</p><p>In late spring 2024, Dr Brian Elmore was working out of a mobile clinic, providing medical treatment to migrants in<strong> </strong>Ciudad Juárez, just south of the US-Mexico border wall. One of his patients, a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/venezuela">Venezuelan</a> man with a fractured arm and a detached left chest from his sternum