Desperate migrants are choosing to cross the border through dangerous U.S. desert

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On a sweltering summer afternoon last year, Jacqueline Arellano and James Cordero were out in a desert area on the border between California and Mexico, when they ran into a man in his 60s, who was alone, disoriented and wearing a wool sweater and loafers.

"He'd been lost for three days," says Cordero, "and he'd been going to the top of every nearby mountain, to try to get a better view of where to go, because he couldn't tell which direction was what."

Arellano asked him where he was from. Venezuela, he told her, but, "yo no tengo pais. I don't have a country. I don't have anywhere else to go."

She and Cordero gave him water, and offered medical aid.