By Natasha Anderson For Dailymail.Com

Published: 13:24 EDT, 14 April 2022 | Updated: 14:32 EDT, 14 April 2022

A migrant woman died after getting trapped upside down for an extended period of time while trying to scale the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Arizona.

The 32-year-old Mexican woman was found dangling in a harness on a section of the wall, off of International Road and Kings Highway, around 11pm Monday.

She had reportedly climbed to the top of the wall, but her foot and leg got entangled as she tried to maneuver her way down the barrier. 

The Cochise County Sheriff's Office said the woman, who has not been identified, was 'trapped upside down for a significant amount of time.'

Deputies were not able to say exactly how long she'd been there. 

The woman was transported to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.

A migrant woman died after getting trapped upside down while trying to scale the U.S.-Mexico border wall near Douglas, Arizona. This January 2020 photo shows the construction of the border wall in Douglas

Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels (pictured) said the incident illustrates how we 'have to do better in finding solutions to the challenges facing our border'

Border patrol agents and sheriff's deputies responded to the incident after receiving a call from Mexican authorities indicating a woman was trapped on the international border wall. 

After the woman was declared dead, U.S. authorities notified the Mexican Consulate who provided additional information. 

The sheriff's office has launched an investigation into the incident. 

Authorities scheduled an autopsy to determine her exact cause of death. 

The coroner has not yet made those results public and the sheriff's office did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment. 

'These types of incidents are not political, they are humanitarian realities that someone has lost a loved one in a senseless tragedy,' Sheriff Mark Dannels said in a press release.

'We have to do better in finding solutions to the challenges facing our border, and we have to do it for the right reasons. 

'Regardless of opinions, it is the facts that should direct our progress and we will keep working towards a shared goal of border safety and security.'

The 32-year-old Mexican woman was found dangling in a harness on a section of the wall, off of International Road and Kings Highway, around 11pm Monday

The Cochise County Sheriff's Office has reported several incidents at the border this week, including one involving an American teen caught transporting two undocumented immigrants across the border.

Officials stop the 18-year-old driver Wednesday evening on Highway 92 for traffic violations. During the stop, authorities discovered the migrants in the vehicle.

All subjects were turned over to Border Patrol. It remains unclear if the American teen will face charges in the incident.

Border Patrol agents have reported a growing trend of underage smugglers, many of who are targeted on social media by human smugglers.

The teens, some as young as 13 years old, are contacted by online recruiters offering hundreds of dollars per migrant they drive across the southwest border. 

The Cochise County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday caught an 18-year-old American boy transporting two undocumented immigrants across the border

Authorities discovered the migrants during a traffic stop Wednesday evening on Highway 92. All subjects were turned over to Border Patrol and it remains unclear if the teen driver will face charges in the incident

The recruiters  convince the teen drivers they are unlikely to face legal consequences for smuggling the migrants, mainly Mexican adults, into the U.S. because they are minors.

Unless the teen has been in trouble before, the majority of juvenile smuggling cases result in probation until the age of 21.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has also arrested teen drivers from communities in New Mexico, Texas and California. 

Around one in four drivers caught smuggling migrants last year near Sunland Park, New Mexico - an area with high smuggling rates due to its proximity to the border - were children, most U.S. citizens living locally.

The Cochise County Sheriff's Office also caught a 36-year-old Phoenix woman attempting to bring three migrants into the country on Wednesday night.

The Arizona resident was also discovered smuggling migrants during a traffic stop on Highway 92. 

The individuals in that case were turned over to Border Patrol agents. 

Since Biden took office in January 2021, CBP has encountered more than 2.2 million migrants and the border – and that number could as much as triple with the end of Title 42 next month

The Cochise County Sheriff's Office also caught a 36-year-old Phoenix woman attempting to bring three migrants into the country on Wednesday night

The Arizona resident was also discovered smuggling migrants during a traffic stop on Highway 92. The individuals in that case were turned over to Border Patrol agents

Title 42 was enacted by then-President Donald Trump in March 2020, as COVID began to surge across the United States.  

The policy allows border patrol agents to deny entry to migrants without considering their asylum claims if they have been in a country where a communicable disease – such as COVID – is rife. 

It has been used more than one million times during Donald Trump's and Joe Biden's presidencies, with its continuation under the Biden administration infuriating left-wing Democrats. 

Already deeply controversial, the policy was lambasted by top Democrats when it emerged Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country to Mexico were being turned away at the US southern border under Title 42, despite Biden's promise to welcome them 'with open arms'. 

But immigration experts told DailyMail.com that although Title 42 has left thousands of refugees in danger in Mexico, there is no plan for an effective and fair replacement system – meaning a pileup of tens of thousands of desperate asylum seekers at ports of entry is likely in border cities like Tijuana, south of California and Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas.   

Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has encountered more than 2.2 million migrants and the border – and that number could as much as triple with the end of Title 42 next month.

A Mexico government official fears there will be chaos at the U.S. border unless Biden's administration comes up with a clear plan on how to handle the onrush of nearly 140,000 migrants seeking asylum once Title 42 is lifted. 

As many as 4,000 migrants are currently staying at shelters in the border town of Tijuana while about 1,500 are housed in shelters in Mexicali as the clock ticks down toward May 23 - the date when the controversial policy imposed by former President Donald Trump is lifted. 

Tens of thousands of additional migrants are in Chiapas near Mexico's southern border city awaiting humanitarian visas from the country.

Enrique Lucero, director of the Direction of Attention to Migrants of the Municipality of Tijuana, told DailyMail.com on Tuesday that the Biden administration’s plan to suspend the measure raises many unknown variables on both sides of the border.

'We hope that the United States is very clear about how it will receive all those asylum applications once Title 42 is eliminated because it is not clear whether they will do it in person at the border or if they will do it online,' Lucero said. 'If they do it in person, there will be chaos at the border because everyone will want leave the shelters and arrive at the border and stand in line. So that's going to create chaos for them and us.' 

More than 1.6 million migrants – mostly single adults - have been expelled from the United States since March 2020, when Trump enacted Title 42.

The measure, which dates to a CDC public health law instituted in 1944, provides Border Patrol agents the authority to turn back migrants without allowing them the opportunity to apply for asylum because they were deemed a threat to spread COVID-19 in the country.

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