Arizona Non-Profit Humane Borders Helps Keep Dehydrated Migrants Alive VOA News
go to original September 19, 2014

The Sonoran desert, a common crossing point for illegal immigration into the United States, is one of the hottest places in North America. Many who attempt the journey become dehydrated and die along the way. This has prompted one non-profit organization to provide migrants with what they need most to survive.

Water can mean life or death here in the Sonoran desert, says Ex-marine Joel Smith, operations manager for 'Humane Borders', a non-profit humanitarian organization based in Tucson, Arizona.

“You can walk for days out here and not find any water springs or wells, just cattle tanks with green algae if you're lucky," he said. "This time of year, if you're lucky, maybe a few mud puddles ... from the rains, but this is a desert. There's no water here.”

He is responsible for filling strategically-positioned barrels with fresh, cool water in the most remote, dangerous areas of the Sonoran desert, where dehydration is the leading cause of death.

To people he has never met, he is a life-saving hero, but not everyone agrees.

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