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The Devil's Highway is the path many migrants take to come to the United States for a better life. The first death ever found was on January 18, 1541 and ever since then locals think the path is haunted by many ghosts and myths. Over the years many have passed away due to the poor conditions of heat. thousands of deaths happen each year.

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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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five men who broke away from the group are lost and are going to be dehydrated. they go somewhere to try and find border patrol agents because they lost there group

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border patrol roams around the passages of the devils highway. most people die because of the poor conditions. most border patrol agents just leave the bodies since they dont want to do a report. most border patrol agents are ex military

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In this chapter Agent Mike F. finds the five men off the drag. THE YUMA 14/WELLTON 26 is the thing they call dragging and thats how Agent Mike Found the five men. the border patrol agents basically go out and lookfor clues. the brorder patrols look for strategies that people use to get to the U.S.

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In this chapter a guy named Don Moi is a coyote which helped people come to El Norte which  helped the journey north for   Nahum Landa, Enrique Landeros Garcia, Reyno Bartolo Hernandez, and Mario Castillo Fernandez, Reymundo Barreda all Veracruz residents  and they come to the U.S. looking in need to make money.

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The coyotes are people who help people cross the border. it is dangerous to trust them because you don't know if they'll just keep your money because some just take the money and leave them just there. they talk about how they really are to them and talks about the hierarchy of Don Moi's crew, how they have the family connections among the people who are coyotes

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el guia helps them to guide them through the path. Antonio Lopez Ramos is Mendez but he was one of the leads for Yuma 14/Wellton 26 which helps them get to the U.S by using that technique. . most of the guias dont care if the people live or die

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Jesus leads the Yuma 14/Wellton 26 onto the Devil's Highway. he met Rodrigo Maradona the one person who introduced him to all of this. He feels powerful since hes helping people cross over to the U.S. when its a big crime.

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Mendez and Maradona are at a dirty border motel waiting for people to arrive . they both  take their last group like way before they took the last group. but they got caught. Don Moi is on the bus to Sonoita with those 26 people for when the next border crossing had to leave on May 19th.

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Mendez arrives to the Devil's Highway early, which Mendez realized its bad  because he knows if they start walking they will get hot and sick since it is so hot. way before all of that Mendez had woken up hungover and could find Maradona, and he finds Lauro and Santos as no help but they walk down the pollos.

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Border Patrol tracks their paths of people crossing . the group is lost and about to be so dehydrated and will not be able to take the heat. they go walking for days and days but get lost along the way

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the group of 12 went out on Sunday, May 20th, they just keep walking and walking till they are LOST and the sun keeps getting hot and hot   The heat will probably cause severe hotness to the 12 of them. as they go through they begin to go through hyperthermia.

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Mendez is lost but just lets everyone else keep walking. he doesnt tell anyone hes lost. he just keeps going and going in the hot weather. they feel trapped not getting to anywhere

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The men's full names are stated, their backgrounds are given,  but not only that they even exposed all there reasons why they came to the United States.  the coyote Don Moi would cross them even if they didn't have money because he'd male them work for him in the US.

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In this chapter  Mendez and Lauro take all of the money of the men and they leave the men behind. So the men were alone for a while but then started to head north because that's where Mendez had his escape plan.

They start to walk for a long time so they realize Mendez doesn't know where he is so they stand up to him and Lauro , telling them they want water and that they wanted to be lead to civilization.

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The men  walked ten miles from where Mendez left them. Eventually they got tired but all of them scattered from each other.
they started a fire in hopes to get rescued but  they turn into mental and physical decline .the plan fails for them and they end up fainting.

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Agent Mike F. Is finding the fresh spots that lead him to the man but sadly some men only made it to get caught by la migra in the helicopters.. Lauro is lucky but Mendez was found. Then later on he went to the patrol to try to piece the story of the Yuma 14/Wellton 26.

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Being in the hospital with the border patrol  By both US and Mexican authorities, The man didn't say nothing about el Negro but pointed the finger at Mendez.

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Mendez the Rita does everything to help Yuma 14/Welton 26. All the men are here testifying against him. He’ wrote a letter by explaining how his life is difficult to let him go in desert because it does nothing and things get bad for him.

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Getting the 14 body's  home cost thousands of dollars and that thousands of dollars could’ve helped the community instead.    Mendez is facing prosecution due to his role in the Yuma 14/Welton 26 tragedy. he pleads guilty to lesser charge and is insured his stay in the US and being safe from the gang for at least 16 years. He knows that if he rats out the game they will kill his mom and girlfriend.

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While Mendez rots in jail The man that’s testified against him are allowed to stay in the United States and got jobs in a meat packing plant. The incident in the desert helped because the US and Mexico at the border were held till 911 hit. The border has since become in undated with walkers and coyotes.

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taxpayers pay over $55,000 each year for undocumented which they werent happy about it.  since there was problems with the new death they put new security and new water towers. Also emergency shelters