Group of Migrants Hide Under Trailer Board to Cross U.S Border, Intercepted by Border Patrol

After a trailer was stopped in a border checkpoint in Texas, border patrol agents found 20 migrants, including two children, hiding under the boards with hopes of crossing over to the US.

In a Twitter post, Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Austin Skero shared images of the immigrants' attempt at illegal entry, cramming themselves in the trailer board with barely enough space to move. There were 18 adults and two children who were discovered lying on top of one another.

According to Skero, the two minors who were found aged 10 and 15. It has not yet been confirmed if they were with their parents and relatives or traveling alone.

In order to conceal the migrants, huge items and bags were placed on top of the boards. However, they were discovered after K9 agents were able to alert agents at the trailer, New York Post reported.

Skero also raised concern that smuggling and illegal entry attempts of this kind have a high potential to be fatal especially with the rising temperatures.

According to Daily Mail, its request for more information and comment from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is yet to be returned as of Wednesday.

VP Harris to Travel to Mexico and Guatemala

The immigrants were discovered by patrol agents just two days before Vice President Kamala Harris' announcement that she would be traveling to Guatemala and Mexico to help find a solution and curb the migrant crisis at the U.S. border.

In a statement, Harris said that she will not be coming to the overcrowded child migrant camps and to the southern border because Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is already on top of handling that aspect of the crisis.

Harris defended her decision to only go to Mexico and Guatemala three weeks after being named border 'czar' by the White House. Harris said that the President has already delegated the task to address the current state of the border to Secretary Mayorkas. She also added that her task is to deal with the root causes of the crisis.

In March, the migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border reached 170,000, a record number for almost two decades. The number includes at least 19,000 children who traveled alone.

Forty percent of the encounters at the border in the past month, include families and unaccompanied minors from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. This happened at a time when the policies in both Mexico and the U.S. are leaning them towards staying in the states as they seek asylum, News4SA reported.

As of the moment, border patrol agents are still unsure where the 20 people who were discovered in the trailer were traveling from.

In the past months, the Biden administration has been struggling with the sudden surge in migrant caravans that travel to the. border from Central America, and Mexico hoping to seek asylum in the U.S.

Right now, thousands of unaccompanied minors are housed by the federal government in temporary shelters. Convention centers and military bases have also been used to accommodate the migrants.