Lost in the Arizona desert, pregnant and alone: Guatemalan woman tells her story

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Lost in the Arizona desert, pregnant and alone: Guatemalan woman tells her story

Erika Mateo resigned herself to the grim reality that she would die in the desert. But worse was the thought of losing her unborn daughter. She was nearing the final month of her pregnancy and wandering through the Sonoran Desert south of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 24-year-old had been separated from her group because she couldn’t keep up. “Some of them tried to help me, but they were also afraid of being caught,” Mateo told an Arizona Republic reporter in a Phoenix hotel room shortly after her release from Department of Homeland Security custody. “I just couldn’t keep up anymore. They were too ..