No money or options: a migrant’s unexpected journey to California

Juan is one of a number of asylum seekers being sent from Texas to other states without choice after long, dangerous treks to the US

Five Venezuelan men walked together in the dark, trying to find the address US immigration officials had given them. It was almost midnight in downtown Sacramento, a city they had never heard of and an unexpected destination.

One of them, Juan, 29, who asked for his real name to be withheld out of fear of jeopardizing his asylum request, had expected to end up in New York. He'd spent more than a month on the journey from Venezuela to the US-Mexico border.