Families of burned illegal immigrants grieve while medical bills and questions mount - San Diego Area

The recent wildfires here left a tragic toll among immigrant families, but they also left a financial cost that hospital officials will have to pay somehow.

Maria Guadalupe Beltran, a Vista mother of four, was one of 11 people who were rescued from the Harris fire near the border and treated for burn injuries at UCSD Medical Center. But those injuries claimed Beltran’s life; on Nov. 6, she became one of at least seven migrants to die as a result of the fire.

Beltran risked her life attempting to cross the border illegally during one of the worst possible times, the October wildfires. The husband and children she left behind now face economic hardship in addition to their grief.”*

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