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The devil's highway is a dangerous trail immigrants take to get into the united states. temperatures can reach up to the high 100s and the immigrants who take the trail usually have little to no water resulting to many deaths. the devil's highway today is the same way as back then in 1541 with hot temperature animals who come out at night, but the border patrol has gotten a lot more advanced.

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These pages talked about how a group of men left in hopes of finding help or even border patrol. after wandering around they realize they are lost and start praying that they will be found. They are dehydrated and close to death.

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These pages talked about the border patrol and what kind of people they are. They can be very mean and view immigrants as illegal aliens because many don't like recovering the bodies because it means they have to fill out paper work so a lot of bodies are left out in the desert to rot. most of them don't understand where the immigrants are coming from like their backgrounds because many try to leave poverty and dangerous living conditions and they think that coming to american will help them have a better future

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These pages talked about the Yuma 14 and how many groups of border patrol stations wanted to claim that they had found the bodies. all of a sudden these groups were concerned about immigrants when before they would leave bodies so they didn't have to fill out paper work. the bodies were sent back to mexico on an airplane which was their first time ever on one in a body bag.

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these pages talked about Don Moi, the fat, Americanized man is introduced in this chapter and he introduces the idea of a journey to The States. don Moi is a walking advertisement of that good life many people who live in or around Veracruz so don Moi starts is recruiting and gets people like Bautista Boys, Reymundo Barreda and his son, Nahum, Enrique, Reyno and Mario all to take in hopes of making that more money.

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these pages talked about how don moi and his family have a very organized business going on. his group is mainly relatives but they make a lot of money to the point where they can even hire some more workers. The cercas family has control over border and crossing routes which makes their business successful

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Mendez otherwise know as Jesus was the Guia (guide) that took the Welton 26 down the devils highway. in the business it seems that being a guide is one of the lowest level in smuggling operation. a lot of rumors and story were brought up about how guia leave their groups out in the middle of nowhere to die

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in this chapter it talked about jesus aka mendez who work making bricks turn into a gangsters. jesus meets maradona who was the one that hooked him in to becoming a ganster.
the both of them for a while were doing great getting people across but lately border patrol new technology has gotten them caught. so now they are being transferred to a different route

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Mendez and maradona are located in a little motel near the border, they are waiting for their group (pollos) to arrive. when the group arrive the two of them take their group across and get caught. the wellton 26 are scheduled to leave may 19th

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it is the morning of may 19th. Mendez has a hangover because the day before was a Friday party night.He isn't able to find his partner maradona so he leave with his group of people (pollos) with two other guias. lauro and Santos. they get on a bus that drops them off in the middle of nowhere. the pollos have Pepsi and candy like snacks. they arrive at the devils highway sooner then expects which Mendez realized that the pollos will get sick sooner due to the heat

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Mendez and his group are walking through the devils highway when they run into unknown bright lights. This alarms Mendez and he shouts out La Migra. the group of pollos panic some of them lose their belonging and even a gallon water jug. this casue the group to get way off track and get lost

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the group goes even further into the desert. They are lost and the sun is coming up. there were two stories of white couples in the desert who died. the desert doesn't care who you are no matter what if you aren't prepared you are guaranteed death
hyperthermia has six stages to it
heat stress heat fatigue heat syncope heat cramps heat exhaustion  heat stroke

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Mendez is lost and unwilling to admit it. he keeps making the same mistake by turning left and taking his group in circles. the group begins to realized that Mendez is losing his mind and making bad decision. Santos the other guia starts to claim that all they need to do it turn back around and come back the way they came from. santos group has never been found

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this chapter of the story talked about everyone in the group. their full names are given to us, their background, and their goals are even mentioned. all of them were charged different amounts by don moi and were going to have to pay them back as soon as they started working. i feel like this chapter was added because we might see these peoples lives end

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this chapter talked about how the two guide Mendez and lauro left the group to search for some help. it isn't clear on what exactly happened but there are many ideas such as Mendez and lauro demanded money to help them then they pocketed the money which was from 90-300$. the group asked them to go and get help then made a donation of 90$. the group is told it would only take five hours to get help so they wait and wait and wait.they realized he isn't coming back for them so instaead of staying there to die they get up and start walking north in the end we no for sure that lauro and Mendez headed north and left the group behind.

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this chapter was heartbreaking because many of our walkers die in this chapter. after Mendez left them they were able to walk ten miles before coming to a brief stop. they decide to light a fire in hopes to get someones attention. when no one comes they began to walk again many who are in really bad shape and even sick start to fall behind fall to the ground and meet their end.

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this chapter gave our walkers hope because helicopters came in to rescue them but some of them didn't make it to live. Mendez after walking around 40 miles is found and spotted but lauro wasn't as fortunate. many of the walkers died while they were getting help and didn't get to live.

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this chapter talked about how walkers almost die have taxed the medical systems of border towns and states. Millions of dollars are spent for cases of border crosser and the Yuma 14 are no different. all of them are in the hospital recovering and they know not to point the finger at the cercass family because it would not end well but they can all blame Mendez

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this part of the chapter talked about how the bodies get sent home in body bags. the other side of this part was how Mendez was getting prosecuted and the survivors were testifying against him. mendez writes a letter that does nothing to help him

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this chapter talked about Mendez and his trial. their original plan was to blame the migra. but when Mendez realizes defeat he says I rather live and admit to everything.  he will end up doing 16 years in prison and have the smallest chance of getting out. the thought of ratting out the gang and their involvement crossed Mendez's mind and he kept quiet because he didn't want anything to happen to his family or girlfriend.

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Mendez is slowly dying in prison. but our survivors are given jobs in a meatpacking plant and are allowed to stay in the united states. because of the events that took place in the desert, Mexico and the united states had a better relationship until the other tragic event of 911 where they felt everyone was against them or their enemy. the border was closed and security all around was massively improved

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New safety towers, water stations, and emergency shelters are now available for walkers because of what happened to the Yuma 14. a lot of people weren't so happy because they believed that the immigrants were costing the USA too much money which was around $55,000 each. a lot of new studies did come out talking about how immigrants bring in more money than they take leaving the US with profit.

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This part of the book talked about the author around ten years after. He talked about his use of the word illegal and how it really gave the ready a visual of these immigrants. He also talked about immigrants trying to come into America decreased but border patrol agents were still improving their equipment and stations. also human tracking remain a big issue

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in this part of the story Urrea our author talked about how there is no real law against illegal immigrants. the author also mentioned that he saw don moi the man from his book in person. don moi tried to get the property's of the widowers of the men who died, but they fought back and beat him up. Raymundo Sr.'s nephew came to the US on the same trail that Raymundo Sr and Jr traveled. he became a professor and lived out the life that his relatives tried to achieve.