U.S. border agents discover 132 migrants crammed inside a tractor trailer in Texas

U.S. Border Patrol agents foiled a human smuggling attempt when they found 132 migrants inside a tractor trailer in Texas.

El Paso Sector’s agents assigned to the Ysleta Station were tipped off Sunday about smuggling activities that were taking place at an abandoned building and of a second location that was also being utilized by the smugglers.

The border station’s anti-smuggling unit spotted the truck early Monday and ordered the driver to stop before they made the shocking discovery in an industrial area.

Images released by the El Paso Sector showed the large group huddling together and arrested the driver and their companion.

The migrant group consisted of 130 adults from Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Ecuador.

CBP also identified two unaccompanied children from Guatemala within the group.

CBP learned of a possible smuggling activity taking place at two El Paso, Texas, locations on Sunday. At least 132 migrants from Central America and South America were found inside a tractor trailer on Monday. CBP said there were two unaccompanied children within the group

CBP said that some of the migrants have already been sent back to Mexico under Title 42 – a policy enforced by the former administration of President Donald Trump that allows for migrants to be returned across the border due to concerns of a mass COVID-19 outbreak

It’s unknown if the children’s parents are in the United States or if a family member has been contacted.

DailyMail.com reached out to CBP for comment.

All of the individuals were provided medical attention and processed for unlawful border entry. 

The agency said some of the migrants were sent back to Mexico under Title 42 – a policy enforced by the former administration of President Donald Trump that allows for migrants to be returned across the border due to concerns of a mass COVID-19 outbreak.

‘Human smugglers continue to have no regard for the health and safety of the people they exploit for profit,’ El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez said in a statement.

‘These dangerous smuggling tactics endanger migrant lives and exposed the ruthless and careless methods Transnational Criminal Organizations use to carry out their illicit activities.’

A total of 130 adult migrants await inside a CBP facility for processing before some were expelled to Mexico

Monday’s smuggling activity took place just days after a woman involved in a migrant trafficking incident was stopped and apprehended by Border Patrol agents 523 miles away in the Texas border city of Carrizo Springs.

A viral video of the arrest showed the moment the alleged trafficker snarled and lunged at an agent who was filming her after she repeatedly refused orders to put her feet back in the U.S. Border Patrol van.

A woman arrested for smuggling migrants last week in Carrizo Springs, Texas, snarls at Border Patrol agents as she charged at them and tried to escape

CBP’s recent report for southwestern encounters shows that encounters of migrants for unlawful crossing of the United States-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022 are on pace to surpass the totals for the previous fiscal year.

At least 518,360 encounters were reported between October 2021 and December 2021, the first quarter of the current fiscal year, after 1,734,686 interdictions were registered in all of fiscal year 2021.

For its part, the El Paso Sector tallied 49,012 encounters in the first three months of fiscal year 2022, a 71.7 percent increase after 28,553 interdictions were made in the prior fiscal year’s first quarter.