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"Mom's and Dad's, Kids/Children, How Many More?"

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The Devil's Highway is a road that the migrants take when they are crossing the border to the USA. The highway is known to be haunted by creatures or some god's spirit such as La Llorona and chupacabras. This chapter so far tells us what has happened in the Devil's Highway in the past. The first person who died in the Devil's Highway was a guy named Melchior Diaz in 1541. Diaz died by bleeding out and by cutting his stomach open on accident because he was fighting a dog. He suffered for a couple of weeks and started rotting from the inside out then passed away.

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Chapter 1: Rules of the Game (p. 14- 18)

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Chapter 1: Rules of the Game (p. 14- 18)

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The five men were walking through the desert and they came across a pathway that splits into two. One pathway keeps going to the US and the other takes them to get help. If they choose the pathway to get help, they will end up in a border patrol building where they put all the migrants they can catch in there to send them back to where they came from. The men were looking for help because they were dying of starvation and dehydration. So they all went searching for help to look for water and food.

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two roads diverged in Chihuahuan Desert by desertpackrat.blogspot.com_

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1st picture: "Cautious! -Don't Give Your Life to the Elements- It's Not Worth It" 3rd Picture: "Caution migrants could pass by any second"

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The government or the border patrol have signs at the border telling them not to cross but the people crossing the border doesn't understand what it's saying. The people crossing the border don't understand what the signs are saying because it's either written in English or it's not written correctly. There are stories told that the border patrol securities used to harass and abuse girls and they would leave them or put them in the desert to rot or so they could die slowly.

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The border patrol goes through the pathway that the migrants walk through and drag something on the ground to make the sand smooth. When a person walks on the pathway the border patrol will be alarmed because there will be fresh footprints/shoe prints that the migrants made. Once one of the border patrol police finds a shoe print they will call over the walkie-talkie that someone has barely passed by. The five men were sun burnt and dehydrated from the sun.

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A guy named Don Moi went to the United States and came back to Mexico. When he came back from the US he was fat and had his coffee with milk, jewelry, car, and other stuff that he got from the US. Everyone in Mexico saw him as a rich man and they all wanted what he had. Don Moi wanted people to come up to him and tell him how he got the things he has and how they can get there to the US. Don Moi started making a business to get people who wanted to go to the US so they can help their families with stuff and make money. If people want to go to the US they are gonna have to pay Don Moi thousands of pesos which they make in a year. Don Moi was telling the people that he will be with them every step of the way but Moi was lying to them he said that so that he can get money. The only part Don Moi was helping them was when it had to do with driving because he was too fat to walk across the border. Don Moi would drop them off at the border and then just abandoned them so it wouldn't be his problem anymore it would be someone else's problem.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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People who help other people cross the border to get to the US are called Coyotes. The Chicken is what the coyotes call their group because when walking through the desert they get dehydrated and start burning 'cause the sun. It gets so hot that their shoes get all messed up and their feet would start burning. Don Moi is not the only one in the business of helping migrants cross the border. Don Moi's family helps too.

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There were three guides that helped people cross the border and earn hundreds of dollars for every group of people they help. They earn thousands of dollars every week. The Guias gave their group/people cocaine so they can walk longer and faster. The Guias didn't care about you they only cared about getting their money. The Guias don't care if their people died in the middle of the journey and they didn't care if you didn't or did make it to your nasty job.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Jesus is the person who leads the Yuma 14. Guia's are different then coyotes. Guia's don't care if you live or die through the journey and the coyotes do. The Coyotes will help you get through to the US alive and safe. A couple miles from the nearest city are white vans picking up migrants to take them to their destination. Whoever gets in the can makes it through and whoever didn't make it to the van in time gets left behind in the desert to die.

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Mendez and Maradona go to a bar near the border and they get drunk while they wait for the people who are going to cross the border. Don Moi of course is not going to walk so he is on the bus with the people who are going to cross the border going to Sonoita.

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Mendez doesn't know the route only Maradona and if Maradona doesn't show up Mendez sends two people he doesn't like to go look for him. Mendez loses Maradona so he takes his group to the devil's highway so they can start their journey. The group gets off the bus and they find a place where they give out food and drinks for the people who are going to cross the border. The temperature is going to rise onve they start walking because they arrived early.

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The group started walking through the desert but someone saw a light from a distance that made them take cover. They took cover because they thought it was a border patrol passing by looking for migrants crossing illegally. The Border Patrol goes out every morning looking for shoes or footprints. If the border patrol finds fresh shoe prints they will scatter around looking for the people who crossed. Mendez takes the group to the wrong route because he is so alerted about the border patrol.

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This chapter-, talks about the stages you go through or could go through when walking in the desert. These stages are heat stress, heat fatigue, heat syncope, heat cramps, and heat exhaustion, They were trying so hard to stay alive that they had to drink their own urine. When it comes to the desert we are all illegal aliens. We are all illegal aliens because no matter who you are you will eventually die in a desert if you go too far from where you started. You will die because the temperatures could get high. It will either take hours or days to die in a desert and it doesn't matter if you are prepared or not.

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The group is in a very bad place and they are alone. Some will make it alive and some won't because of the struggles they are going through or are going to go through. Mendez decided to take a break at the hottest hour of the day which is around 12 pm. In my opinion, I think that wouldn't be a good idea because the people already know he lost the whole group. Mendez took the group to the wrong pathway or route. Now they have to retrace their tracks to go to the right route. Almost all their resources were gone they had no water or food left. Finally, someone is starting to realize that if they follow their tracks back they will find their way back. They had a choice to either go back to Mexico and save their own lives or go back where they started and restart their journey. Mendez didn't want to turn around because he has gone too far and he thinks salvation is nearby. He won't turn around because he might get killed by the Cerca Family 'cause he has taken the group to the wrong track. "Come morning, it would be time to die" I feel like that line is very meaningful because they have nothing left and they know that death is among them but they keep going and trying to find a better life for themselves and their family.

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I feel like the author Luis Alberto Urrea put this chapter in the middle of telling us the journey because he wants us to know the reason why the people were trying to go to the US. This chapter is trying to tell us/the reader that they are human and they are sacrificing their own life for their family. He wants us to understand that they are real people in real life that are trying to make one's life better and by telling their story. It is interesting because they each have their own story to tell but they all ended up in the same place.

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Mendez was looked at as a bad guy/villain to the group but in Mendez's head, he was looked at as a hero/ a good guy. Mendez told the group if he doesn't leave the group and try to get resources they will all die in the desert. The group thinks that Mendez robbed them and bolted which tries to abandon the group. Mendez tried to take everyone's money and tried blaming it on Lauro. Mendez said that the temperatures have never been that high but I think it is a lie that he is telling because he has gone through the desert a couple of times. Mendez also calls the men/group illegals. Mendez will always find a way to steal money from the men. The group is having hypothermia because each man is telling a different story. Their stories are not matching because they can't think straight it's like they are half asleep half awake. Mendez said that he wasn't going to leave the men because he is different from the rest of the coyotes but all the coyotes are the same they try to steal from the group they are supposed to be helping. The coyotes steal money then abandon them. Mendez kept on saying 3 more hours to go but that is what he kept on saying to the group. Reymundo said if they have 3 hours left then he wants Mendez to go because Reymundo knew they wouldn't make it. Mendez left the group to go get resources and he said that he is going to come back in 5 hours. When Mendez left the group a couple of hours pass by until they realize that Mendez isn't gonna come back. The group is going to follow Mendez's tracks because he abandoned them. As the men walk they are praying for salvation and dreaming of a home or their family on the beach. While Mendez and Lauro are arguing bout if they get caught. Mendez and Lauro knew if they satyed with those men they would've died. The group had to leave some people behind because they were dying and by the time they gor help they would've been dead so they just left them behind.

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When Mendez left the group, the group kept on walking. As the group kept on walking they made it till the next morning alive. The men are experiencing heat symptoms such as heat exhaustion, heat strokes, heat cramps, starvation, dehydration, etc. The group started to create smoke and fire to get help but nobody came and their plan failed. Reymundo Jr. and Reymundo Sr. died. Reymundo Jr. died because the heat and he died in his father's (Reymundo Sr.) arms. Reymundo Sr. got up and left his son laying on the ground and started walking couple steps away from his son. When Reymundo Sr. walked a couple step he walked into the heat too and died the same way his son did.

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Some men are slowly dying in the desert and some men might survive if they get help. Agent Mike F. is searching the desert for fresh footprints or for some kind of sign that there was recently people passing through the desert. Some men made it alive to seek help and to see helicopters. Right when they were getting rescued the men died. Mendez was found from the rescue people but they never found Lauro. The men who stayed alive got into the helicopter and got brought to a safety place. They were also brought out of the Border Patrol to try to tell the story of what happened to the group and the story of how some ended up dying or living.

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The men were rescued by helicopters and brought to hospitals to recover from all that heat exhaustion and from walking. The men are being treated well at the hospital to make sure another person doesn't die. When the men were being rescued one of them died being transferred to the helicopter. While the men were being treated in the hospital they were also being questioned by the United States authorities and the Mexican authorities. The men snitched on Mendez for what he did to the group but they didn't snitched on El Negro. Mendez is the one getting blamed on for abandoning the group and leaving them to die in the heat.

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Rita Varges is doing her best to help the Welton 26 and is trying to get Mendez to confess what he has done. Rita will keep fighting and do whatever she can to keep living in the United States. Mendez made a letter that was not believable and told lies. He was explaining how bad his journey through the desert was. Everyone knows that Mendez is to blame for and it is going downhill for him.

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Mendez won't tell the Americans the true story of what he did and what happened in his journey. If Mendez tells the polices the story then something bad might happen to his family or his girlfriend. Mendez doesn't have an option he's either going to prison for the rest of his life or going out to death for the crimes he has done. Arizona has a death penalty on Mendez so if he fails the trial he is going to be put to death. Mendez tried to blame it on La Migra but he got beat because the Migra already knows what he has done. La Migra already knows what he has done because the men that survived from the group snitched on him and told them everything he has done to them. The men went out of their way to go through the journey for the actions they took. They risked their life to help their family and to keep them from poverty. El Negro is living on the American side of the border and he knows that the polices are looking for him. El Negro goes places and

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The men who survived stayed in the United States for telling them what actually happened and so they don't have to walk in the heat again. The men got jobs in the United States and they worked at a meat factory where they will never be in the heat again. What happened to the men made the Unites States and the Mexico border have a better relationship until 9.11. After 9.11 the securities has gotten together to protect and secure the border more then the past.

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There are now safety towers, emergency shelters, and also water stations. They put that there after the tragedy deaths if some of the men in Welton 26. The author Luis Alberto told us how and why Mexicans cross the border and that they are actually trying to help the economy and not take from it. Not everyone was thrilled and especially those who believed that undocumented immigrants drain the system.

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The United States border has upgraded so they have more agents and depth patrol at the border. The good part is that the number of people trying to cross the border has decreased. The thing that is not goof is that the violence and the crimes at the border hasn't been decreased. Over those 10 years the human smuggling have grown.

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Luis Alberto tells the story about him talking to Don Moi. Alberto also talks about his love connection about the border. At the end Alberto talks bout how Reymundo Sr. nephew became a professor and rich. After all the story had a happy ending and the story continues to tell.