(CNN) – Five unsupported immigrant women, aged 11 months to 7 years, were found Sunday at the Texas-Mexico border, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP.

A border patrol agent responded to a call from a Maverick County agent about the children, the agency said. The agent responded by finding five girls aged 7, 3, and 2 from Honduras and one, 5, aged 11 months from Guatemala.

“It’s fascinating to find children who can defend themselves in the middle of nowhere,” said Austin L., chief patrol agent for the Del Rio Department. Screw II said in a statement. “Unfortunately, this often happens now. If it were not for our community and our law enforcement partners, these women would have experienced temperatures above 100 degrees without assistance.

Children do not need medical assistance and are pending transfer to the care of health and human services.

A farmer who saw the girls told Tony Gonzalez, a Republican representative in Texas, that he was making a round of the farm when he saw the girls. “It was about 8:30 in the morning, I was driving, and suddenly I saw them there, on the shore, in the river here, five little girls alone, hungry, crying. One has no clothes, ”he said, who first called the Border Patrol and then approached the sheriff.

“I don’t think they would have created it if I hadn’t found them,” the farmer, whose name was not given, told Gonzalez.

CNN reached out to CBP and Gonzalez.

The incident is one of recent months as the number of unsupported immigrant children across the southern border of the United States has increased.

In late March, a kidnapping incident on the U.S.-Mexico border made national headlines when border patrol released video of two young Ecuadorian sisters being thrown over a 14-foot high border fence in the desert. Last month, U.S. border patrols found a 10-year-old boy in the Rio Grande Valley area of ​​Texas after a farmer found him and alerted authorities.

“Can you help me?” The boy asked a border patrol agent in a video shared with CNN.

In March, the CBP identified 19,000 unsupported children on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the latest data from the agency. Over the past month, the administration has been able to quickly transfer children to health and human services custody, although as of May 9, more than 20,000 children remain in U.S. custody.

The incident is one of recent months as the number of unsupported immigrant children across the southern border of the United States has increased.

In late March, a kidnapping incident on the U.S.-Mexico border made national headlines when border patrol released a video of two young Ecuadorian sisters falling over a 4-meter-high border fence in the desert. Last month, border patrols found a 10-year-old boy in the Rio Grande Valley area of ​​Texas after a farmer found him and alerted authorities.

“Can you help me?” The crying boy asked a border patrol agent in a video shared with CNN.

In March, the CBP identified 19,000 unsupported children on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the latest data from the agency. Over the past month, the administration has been able to quickly transfer children to health and human services custody, despite more than 20,000 children still in U.S. custody as of May 9.