The Devil's Highway by Sherlyn Ascencio (Student WHS) https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif Made with big dreams en-us 2021-03-05 16:46:33 UTC 2023-05-19 13:15:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Ch 1, p. 4-14 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481499420 The author is talking about how clueless the five men are and also about where they are because they have no idea.There condition was so bad that they had turned so dark because of how burned they got from the sun and how there lips were huge and so cracked witch just made u imaginge the dehydration.How there were cactus spines in there faces but bc they didn´t have much fluid left in their boddy , they couldn´t bleed .They are seeing things that aren´t really there because of the lack of water .]]> 2021-05-01 23:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481499420 Ch 1, p. 14-18 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481499670 At this piont they wanted to get caught to have the chance to survive because obiusly they were in to good conditions. All that they were seeing was turning ito something else because of them just hallucinating . Then all of the sudden a border patron sees ¨ five boddies ¨ and reports back . The agent didn´ t really think much of it because there was people like that all the time. They also talked about what sometimes went on depending on who caught the immagarts . The coyotes would get shot in the head the people were raped and abbused . Some were just beat and i assumed badly enough for them not able to walk and were tossed around .]]> 2021-05-01 23:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481499670 Ch 1, p. 18-28 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481499846  They told the Agent F there was 17 men that were dying but they didn´t know how many bobies there really was because they all said a diffrent number of boddies .when that call went in the border patrols knew they were right because the assumed something bad was comming .Then the author starts talking about the difrent ways people have died int he dessert and some of them were hyperthermia , drowned , heart atacks , and many more but they were all harsh . And all of those deaths remain an open case file forevvvvvverrrrr! because of the lack of information]]> 2021-05-01 23:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481499846 Ch 1, p. 28-40 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500013 In this chapter it really does talk a lot about  drags and how they read them . Some of the things that they said that i thought were important were that they just flaten the land and thats how they read the footprints . Some of them would even walk backwards to confuse the agents . The cutters read the land like if it was a text . They know the land so well they know the scheduall of the imagrants but they said if no cutter is around they know someone has just snuck in. In the chapter they were also arguing abt who found them or what to call them but they ¨identified¨ them by what they had in their pockets o what they had on.]]> 2021-05-01 23:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500013 Ch 2 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500199 They are now talking abou the state of veracruz and many of the states it is sorroned by and one of them is tabaso which i am shocked to see because not many people know where thats at which is where my parents where born and from where i come from at heart. It also talks about how it runs way deeper and also its native roots . They talk about how evreyones work was going down . What caused evreything to go down was because the narcos were bribing the police and they took it but they said it was mostly because the coffee prices went down.They started to suffer really bad because evreyone kept having kids which they said that ¨with more mouths to feed came hunger¨]]> 2021-05-01 23:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500199 Ch 3 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500385  This chapter is about how they define or how they see the coyotes and the walkers and also how they describe them. The coyotes were known as the polleros and the pollos which are the walkers . They also talk about Luis Cercas which was "the main man" head of Yuma 14 operation and he lived in United States . And in the chapter they said " their not just coming over to work, but to get laid. They're coming for our daughters! They're coming to make welfare babies! They're coming to party, party, party!" which was pointed toward the imagrats and it is so sad they think like that]]> 2021-05-01 23:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500385 Ch4 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500546 This chapter is called ¨El Guia¨ which means “the guides.” this Chapter had the three guides that led the ¨Wellton 26¨ into the us . not only one but there were also other guides liike Coronado. The chapter had examples of other people that had died while crossing theU.S. and the mexican border, and they also talked about a car accident in the Summer of 2002. Something that was important was how they said that the guides are young men and they dress like the people they transport so that they can blend in just in case they are caught. I think that this is pretty smart because i didn´t know they did this but its probably why people keep crossing .]]> 2021-05-01 23:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500546 Ch5 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500600 Chapter 5 it tells us about the Yuma 14 survivors as they got at then hospital. It also described Mendez , how and by who he was hired to be a coyote.  Keep in mind that survivors are in the hospital. Most cannot speak. All of them are in shock which means they do not know whats going on and because of them being in shock they don´t really feel the ingures they caused themselfs but once it goes away they will feel all the pain and they will be confused because they were unconcios most of the time .]]> 2021-05-01 23:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500600 Ch6 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500655 In Chapter 6 its about how jesus and Maradona are getting ready to lead a group out of Mexico. they are going torwrds Sonoita to cross. but the group is arrested after crossing the border. They talk about how mendez is questioned by the Border Patrol, but then send him back into Mexico. Which is the reason why more and more people keep crossing because the keep the wrong persons held in , but then again theres people that acept bribes and will do anything for money so the coyotes know who to bribe and who not to even mention anything about it . don Moi and his group left Veracruz for Sonoita but Don Moi ends up going home. ]]> 2021-05-01 23:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500655 Ch7 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500732 This chapter is about how mendez is ready to lead the¨ Wellton 26¨ into the U.S. But they can´t find Maradona . so mendez is given two guides to replace Maradona since he didn´t show up . And i guess that shows how good Maradona must have been at guiding. when they had already walked across the border , the group crammed into the van and got a ride to where they began walking which i know is true because my mom told me they did the same to her and she said that there was wayyy more people then there should have been.Bu they said that even some started drinking the Pepsi they had brought which was already warm from the desert heat which can tell you that is was pretty hot .]]> 2021-05-01 23:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500732 Ch8 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500798 Chapter 8  told us about how they were walking  up to the  Bluebird Pass. They were climbing a steep hill and even though most of them were in good shape they had trouble with it . Some of the men where even joking and teasing eachother as they struggled to catch their breaths which they thought was funny then .They ended uo seeing lights which they suspected were the border patrols so they ran and hid so they wt get caught. But as they hid some of them dropped water jugs and hats which would have been very useful but at that time they would have rather left there things then get caught .]]> 2021-05-01 23:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500798 Ch9 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500869 The chapter first started about how  Mendez trying to convince the group that they were not lost obusly so that they wouldn´t just go and turn themselfs in because he didn´t know the way . mendez had made 3 mistakes already which were  that the group had been in the sun for to long , he starting walking too early in the day, and he took a wrong turn at Bluebird. The chapter  also tells us about the six stages of hyperthermia that they sufferd of which was Heat Stress, Heat Fatigue, Heat Syncope, Heat Cramps, Heat Exhaustion, and Heat Stroke. And as i have learned some of the symtoms are ..... 
- General Weakness
- Heavy Sweating 
- Weak but faster pulse or heart rate 
- Vomiting or nausea  
- Cool and Clammy skin- Hot , red , and dry skin
- Loss or change of consciousness
- Internal temperature reaches over 103 degrees
- Dry Skin
and the treatment was to put them onto a cool place and give them watter .

]]> 2021-05-01 23:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500869 Ch10 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500938 Chapter 10 tells us about the poor conditions of them walking through the desert. The group started walking at 6 in the morning and tried to cross over the Growler Mountains many times. They endede up deciding to rest until night-time which they clearly needed because they had been walking for so long . But by this point the guides were disoriented and began walking in the opposite direction . Then they arrived at a different mountain range which were the Granite Mountains but were out of water by the time they got there  ]]> 2021-05-01 23:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481500938 Ch11 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501078 Chapter 11 were about the stories of the walkers in the group. And they talked about their  individual lives, goals, and reasons for crossing the border. Some of their names were José de Jesús Rodriguez ,Enrique Landeros García whch  was thirty years old and from a coffee village, and was walking for his wife and son so that he can earn money here in the u.s or at least he hoped and he also said it would change their lives . Reyno Bartolo Hernandez was a thirty-seven-year-old coffee farmer and this one was the one who said that he had worn green socks and pants so that he would look good when he crossed the border , and Lorenzo Ortiz Hernandez was walking to the U.S. so that he could suport his family and rasie his five children . There are more but those are the ones i thought were important]]> 2021-05-01 23:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501078 Ch12 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501159 In chapter 12 it says how mendez was even conviced that they were going to die . at this point the men had begun to eat cactus and drink their own urine to stay hydrated. And then the mendez collected
money from the group to “set out for water and help.” Mendez was going to go alone but then started insiting on his partner going and they ended up both leaving. then the group realized they had probably left  them and were not returning because obiously they waited and saw no sign of them. but the group decided to continue on,  because they were desperate and also out of water. ]]> 2021-05-01 23:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501159 Ch13 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501218 The chapter shows us the desperation of the group. And how two men in the group ended up  dying . And also how five  of the men in the group climbed a hill and tried to flag down a Border Patrol by walking only ten miles in twelve hours and come upon some brush and then decided to start a wildfire to signal for help or to get the attention from the border patrol that was patrolling though the desert . At this point it is said that they were praying for death which you can see that it was so bad that death was the best option for them and that at that point dying was better then going throgh that. ]]> 2021-05-01 23:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501218 Ch14 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501280 Chapter 14 talked about what the men did at the end of their lives. It also described what the men or bodies looked like when they were finally discovered. But it tells us how even mendez and lauro were really strugling to survive and how lauro was fadding fast and mendez thought that he was sleeping but once he tried to wake him up he didn't and when mendez tried to get up his legs couldn't anymore so he just crawled until he couldn't anymore and ended up falling asleep. And when the five guys find agent f and they end up finding the men and within 10 mins they found many bodies.]]> 2021-05-01 23:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501280 Ch 15, p. 179-186 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501488 In these pages It talks about how they were trying to keep the ones who survied in yuma at the hospital and they were trying to figure it out. They were talking about how the doctors were even overwellmed about how many bodies were going in .They also said about how the walers were just laying in bed not knowing they were costing naything and i bet that if they knew they were they would have left because they wouldve thought about all that money and assumed they had to pay it . The serfiff was interigating them but then the social worker inturupted him to him about his options i guess.]]> 2021-05-01 23:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501488 Ch 15, p. 186-193 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501645 In these pages it said how they didn't even know where they where or what yuma was . They were frightened for their lives because all they could think about was how much this was going to cost thier familes because most of the coyotes know where the families live where they were going just in case they rat them out. They didn't even know if they were going to get deported THEYYYY WEREE CLUUUEELEESSSSSSS!!!!!! Even thought hey had no idea of what was going on the cops still kept poking at them no matter what they felt or how confused they were themselfs . this chapter also gives us a letter that mendez wrote saying that he was truly sorry]]> 2021-05-01 23:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501645 Ch 16, p. 194-203 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501786 like i said mendez knew his life was over even though he was only 19 years old. and it tells us how he said that he mightve done something bad but that he wasn't bad . Not evreyone takes that stand and accepts that what they have done is wrong an i think that he could be good but we don't know him.They said that their death had cost about 25 thousad dollors plus the shipping and coffins and they still ended up going home.This is just so sad to hear because they clearly had goals and they just ended up dying because of a huge mistake.]]> 2021-05-01 23:25:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501786 Ch 16, p. 203-212 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501969 This chapter is when mendez says that he will plead guilty as long as they dont kill him. They end up giving him 16 years of prison and he knows he has no life and losses conection with evreyone even his mother. The survivors were still greaving . Imagine if that happend to you? do you think you would just magically go back to normal? they don't even have the chance to going back to normal because i know that that would have haunted me until the day i die because that is just not something you can forrget , but they ended up geting an apartment givin to them from the goverment and promised them they would never have to work in the hot sun again.]]> 2021-05-01 23:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481501969 Ch 16, p. 212-220 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481502077 This talks about how after what happend to the yuma 14 they started to change things for the better and that they didnt even name it bc it was to sad to name . They started traing the border patrols more and they spoke spaninsh. they also strted to rome in helicopters and were trained in emergency medicine . This really does make you see how much changed and how they really did realize how important it was to not let that happen again]]> 2021-05-01 23:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481502077 Afterword, p. 221-229 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481502239 Ten years have passed , from the yuma 14 .It talks about how this book just grew and grew and got into the hands of people that he never knew would. Some people were arogant and ignorant and decide to judge and asume that it's their land and they get to chose who belongs and who doesn't.  He talks about the critisum and it is imporant that they knew because not all stories have good comments , its all diverse and it's important to know the diffrent ways people think so that when they tell you something , you know hoow to defend yourself .]]> 2021-05-01 23:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481502239 Afterword, p. 229-235 sascencio1001_2 https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481502425 so it says here that they dont actually have a written law for those who cross the border but thay still deport them and send them to detencion centers and its not officially a law. but they clearly have an image of eho are " illegeals" because it seems like they only go towards the mexicans when clearly they can be of all races and colors .They also talked about what would have jesus done. But evreything has a reason evreything!!!! and if those people died for the wrong reasons they should turn it around and see them as hearos because that made people change their ways and also made the border patrol department to improve to save people from going though the same thing .]]> 2021-05-01 23:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sascencio1001_2/8o51zpcd83mxhkif/wish/1481502425