ArticleJAMA network open2025
Border Region Emergency Medical Services in Migrant Emergency Care.
Article in JAMA network open, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- "Nobody Wants to Die That Way": The Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and Emergency Medical Services in a Rural South Texas County.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Importance: Focusing on the US southern land border only through a security lens minimizes the impact of security infrastructure and migrant health needs on local emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians. Objective: To explore the perceptions and experiences regarding the impact of migration on EMS clinicians in the communities of study. Design, Setting, and Participants: This qualitative study included in-depth interviews with fire department-based EMS clinicians in 3 Arizona communities on the Mexico border from June 23 to 27, 2024. Interviews were conducted 1-on-1 while clinicians were on shift. Participants were recruited with the help of fire department leadership in each fire department. Main Outcomes and Measures: This was an exploratory study designed to identify how EMS clinicians perceive the influence of migration in the study communities. Thematic analysis was conducted using inductive, latent coding. Results: The 67 participants were predominately male (62 [93%]), which is reflective of the EMS profession in the border region. Years of experience as EMS clinicians were fairly evenly distributed: 5 years or less (14 [21%]), 6 to 10 years (18 [27%]), 11 to 20 years (18 [27%]), and 21 or more years (17 [25%]). EMS clinicians in these communities reported serving multiple populations, often responding to complex calls, and experiencing limited downtime and mass casualty-like scenarios when there are high numbers of border crossings. Participants perceived that the local EMS system was strained, and occasionally overwhelmed, and that greater financial support from the federal government was necessary. Conclusions and Relevance: The findings of this qualitative study of EMS clinicians suggest that migration has a complex, multidimensional influence on EMS clinicians in the border region. Deterrence-focused actions have not decreased the number of crossings but rather pushed migrants to cross in more dangerous ways, leading to more injuries and deaths. Our findings suggest that the strain placed on local EMS clinicians is unsustainable and may be exacerbated by increased deterrence-based policies. Instead, border-region EMS clinicians need increased federal funding to support their work.
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