US-Mexico Border Crisis: Migrant Mom From Guatemala Impaled In Front Of Children

A 26-year-old mother from Guatemala was impaled in front of her two children Friday night in an attempt to scale a border fence along near San Ysidro Port of Entry, located between San Diego and Tijuana. The incident was first reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents transported the woman to a local hospital for treatment. Her injuries were the result her falling onto pieces of rebar and concertina wire. Her condition is not considered life-threatening.

The woman was scaling a stretch of the border that is under construction to replace decades-old fencing. The rebar was there as part of construction, not as a fortification.

The woman's children are 3 years old and 5 years old. The children also went to the hospital and were turned over to immigration authorities.

The Associated Press reported that that the woman told agents she was not part of the migrant caravan, which had traveled from Central America to the U.S.-Mexican border.

There are reportedly more than 5,000 Central American migrants in Tijuana seeking to apply for asylum.