An injured migrant mother trying to climb with children at the fence of the US-Mexican border fence

An undocumented migrant mother was injured at the US-Mexico border south of San Diego Friday night, as she was trying to illegally enter the United States climbing a barbed wire fence with her two young children .

The incident occurred just before 8:30 pm at East San Ysidro Boulevard and Rail Rail, an area east of the San Ysidro Port of Entry.

Tekae Michael, a US Border Patrol officer, told NBC 7 that her 26-year-old mother had fallen from the wall of the primary boundary on pieces of grounding bars. The bar pierced the side of the woman. Tekae said the rebar bars were part of a major replacement wall under construction at the border.

The children – aged 3 and 5 – also tried to climb the fence with their mother, but were not injured, said Michael.

Border patrol officers helped the woman after her fall and called paramedics. The mother was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Tekae said the children had also been taken to hospital for medical evaluation to make sure they had not suffered any trauma caused by a fall. The children were then entrusted to the US Border Patrol.

Michael said that the family came from Guatemala, but the border police officer said he was not part of the caravan of migrants currently heading to the southern border of the country.

Michael said the mother would be treated, treated by the Border Patrol and entrusted to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She should recover completely.

The agency said that climbing the fence should never be attempted.

"Entering our country illegally, especially over our walls, is not only dangerous, but also very stupid," said Rodney Scott, chief patrol officer for the San Diego area. "This woman put her own life and those of her children at risk, she could easily have died if the agents and EMS had not responded quickly."

The US-Mexico border fence has been stepped up in recent weeks to prevent migrants from illegally boarding the United States as a caravan of thousands of Central American migrants head for the border.

The migrant caravan traveled by foot and bus from Central America to the southern border of Mexico, then from Tijuana, where thousands of people now live in overcrowded shelters until they can seek asylum from the United States.

In response to this potential influx of migrants, the Ministry of Defense has sent approximately 5,800 Reserve, Reserve and National Guard soldiers – including 1,100 US Marines based at Camp Pendleton – to cross the border and assist the Department of National Defense. Homeland Security in the "hardening" of the border. Concertina cabling has also been added to the fence.

Last week, when DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visited the fence, she told reporters that these efforts to strengthen the border would continue with the help of the army.

"It's a border wall with a row on a row of accordion wires," Nielsen said. "Make no mistake, we are very serious. You will not enter our country illegally. "

Nielsen called the migrant caravan a "crisis" that could spell serious problems for the United States. She said that traveling with the caravan does not give migrants "a special right to enter this country" and that these migrants should "queue up" comes to the asylum application process.