https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb By: Daniela Liborio en-us 2021-03-05 16:46:47 UTC 2025-11-09 11:22:00 UTC hello@padlet.com dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1274501501 History: The Devil's Highway is the route which many migrants use to get into the US with the help of coyotes. They do this although it is dangerous because for many, it is the only chance they have. Since its beginning, people have died however the earliest recorded death would be January 18,1541. Over time, people have come to belief that all the deaths are the cause of the gods and spirits of I'itoi, Ban, Ho'ok, Surem, Yuku, and many more.]]> 2021-03-05 16:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1274501501 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1274685636 The Men: After days in the desert, the 5 men who were away from the rest of the group had only hoped of getting caught by border patrol. Luckily, Agent Mike F. found them right before he drove back and after giving them water he asked if they were okay which is when the men told him that there were more people dying out there. They started with 17 people then said 30 and ended with 70 which shows how dehydrated they were. All the agents knew something bad was coming and they felt as if they would be getting more and more people. They believed that "if it was the Border Patrol's job to apprehend lawbreakers, it was equally their duty to save the lost and the dying."]]> 2021-03-05 17:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1274685636 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1274782798 Border Patrol: The border patrol plays an important role in the lives of those who try to cross the devil's highway. In chapter 1 we see some of the things that happen when immigrants get caught by border patrol. Urrea talk about how many agents arrest the same people multiple times and get to know them. However, not all agents are good people. Some women are molested by border patrol agents aside from being molested by coyotes. Others shoot coyotes when they see them and create ridiculous stories about how they felt endangered, and migrants, they hate Mexican-American agents more than American agents for turning their backs on their own people. We see two sides of the border patrol, one in which agents leave dead people's bodies in order to avoid the paperwork and the others who are filled with rage at of the deaths of illegals who are lured into the wasteland and abandoned by their coyotes.]]> 2021-03-05 17:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1274782798 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1294047786 The Yuma 14: After the boys from the Welton station found the trail of dead bodies, they were mortified about the amount of bodies they found.  For some reason the case because famous and other districts were trying to take credit for the case but what was a little rude was how the author said that the helicopter ride of the dead bodies was their first and last ride on an helicopter. The agents have spent years analyzing footsteps and trails that it didn't take them too long to find the bodies but by the time they discovered the bodies, they was no one alive except the five men who were found by Agent Mike F.]]> 2021-03-10 17:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1294047786 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1303347452 In this chapter it is shown many of the ways that Border Patrol traces, tracks, and borders the migrants. This is done by "dragging" which helps agents identify if people have passed by. They also do this by implementing "Oscar sensors" which alert a station when someone passes by it and the rugged landscape of the desert allows the sensors to go unnoticed. In this chapter, we learn more about the Yuma 14/Welton 26 and "Operation Broken Promise" and about the bodies found and how it affected others.]]> 2021-03-12 16:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1303347452 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1311574487 In this chapter, the title of the book helps better understand the journey to a better life.  It shows the deals and bets done by people and coyotes to be able to cross.  We learn a little more about coyotes and their line of work.  In this chapter, we are also introduced to another character, Teresa, who also helps migrants cross the border.]]> 2021-03-15 16:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1311574487 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1321207321 In this chapter, the author continues to write about how the three guides led the Wellton 26 into the desert. It is said that the guides are also called "polleros" and wear clothes in bad condition to blend into their "pollos" in case they get caught.  Urea focuses a little on the leader of the Wellton 26 who was a nineteen-year-old from Guadalajara and went by Mendez. Mendez wrote a letter to the court where he insisted that, when he began the journey out with the Wellton 26’s, he never imagined that such a tragedy would happen.]]> 2021-03-17 15:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1321207321 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1330210043 In chapter five of the devils highway we see that the Wellton five had just been rescued and were pretty disoriented. The officers ask them questions about their journey in hopes that they would lead them to someone but they were only able to get little due to the men's state.  However, they luckily got the description of Mendez, their pollero. It is important to note that Jesus, Mendez, told the author himself that as a smuggler, he was, in a way, “a kind of civil rights activist” and a “liberator of the poor and the downtrodden.”]]> 2021-03-19 15:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1330210043 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1338731030 Here, we see the story of Jesus and Maradona and how they traveled. It is explained that the Saturday before the journey with the Wellton 26, Jesus was arrested after a somewhat successful walk at a “nameless outpost” near Ajo, a little town, while waiting for their pickup when the border patrol found them after they stopped to drink water. The border patrol had been searching for Jesus but because of his new alias, they did not hold him and sent him back to Mexico. The author continues by talking about the beginning of the journey for the Wellton 26.]]> 2021-03-22 16:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1338731030 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1348600655 This chapter takes the reader on the Mendez's journey of the morning of May 19th.  Mendez goes to Maradona's house to head over to work however after knocking for a while, he calls the boss, El Negro, to tell him that Maradona is either gone or too drunk to be woken so that is when Santos and Lauro are called to fill in. After this, the walkers and the coyotes meet and the walkers stop by a liquor to buy pepsi and snacks and after Mendez bribes a bus driver, they arrive at the border and enter the US and after another bus ride of about 90 minutes, they arrive at the devil's highway where their journey begins to go downhill.]]> 2021-03-24 15:40:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1348600655 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1355603805 In this chapter, it is seen that Mendez had to use a different route than usual, an "uncharted territory," and for the travel, the men had to climb a steep hill because Mendez said that the best way the men could avoid border patrol was by avoiding the flat plains of the desert.  By night, the men had reached the top of the hill, however, according to Mendez, they were met with bright lights.  Thinking it was the border patrol, Mendez informs the men he was with and they all scattered into the desert.  It is not known for sure if it was actually the border patrol men who shone the lights but after avoiding it, the men continued the walk as Mendez told them the highway was nearby. It was not, but the men didn't know that, and Mendez had no idea where he was going.  This endangered the men as Mendez seemed to take the men off-track and instead of heading north, they were headed north-west.]]> 2021-03-26 01:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1355603805 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1364716568 In chapter 9, we see that chaos begins to form for the men as they struggle to find their way and to a water spot.  We see that many of the men were dehydrated and beginning to drink their own pee.  Stories of those who had died in the desert were told by Urrea to demonstrate that hispanic people aren't the only people to die in the desert.  The name of the chater is "Killed by the Light" and I think this was an amazing choice because the entire chapter focuses of hyperthermia caused by the sun in the desert. Urrea also explains all the signs of dehydration and the levels it gets from bad to worse. From heat stress to heat fatigue to heat syncope to heat cramps to heat exhaustion and lastly, a heat stroke.]]> 2021-03-29 16:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1364716568 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1378366091 The morning of Sunday May 20, 6:00 am. The men has been walking through the Cabeza Prieta and while the Mendez didn't know that, Urrea explains that if he did, he could have found several watering spots which could have saved many men.  After walking what seemed to be hundreds of miles, the men become frustrated as many run out of water and have a hard time recovering from the rests. After this, it gets worse when Mendez orders the men to walk southwest, the opposite direction of where they needed to be heading and a while after this, southwest becomes south, the completely opposite direction of their destination. Because of the misguidance of Mendez, one of the other polleros decides to part ways from the group with about 3 to 5 men. To this day, no trace of this grou0p has ever been found.]]> 2021-04-02 16:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1378366091 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1378366463 In this chapter, Urrea names and describes the Wellton 26 men.  Some of the men who were mentioned were Reyno Bartolo Hernandez, Lorenzo Ortiz Hernandez, Reymundo Barreda Maruri and his son Reymundo Jr., and Edgar Adrian Martinez.  Three men, Claudio Marin, Heriberto Tapia, and Javier Santillan stuck together through the journey as Javier began to become disoriented and confused.  Urrea touches upon the Gonzalez Manzano brothers, Isidro, Mario, and Efrain and their bond over jokes.  Urrea uses the men and their stories so that the audience can connect better with the men and what they risked and suffered for a better life.]]> 2021-04-02 16:40:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1378366463 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1378366672 In this chapter we see the events that took place on Monday, May 21.  On this day, the sun was as hot as it had been but the walkers were at end meet with the walking and were tip toeing around their deaths on a tightrope. Urrea expresses both sides of perspectives, that of the walkers and of the coyotes.  At this point, Santos had taken a group of four other men and those who stayed with Mendez and Lauro began dying and trying to stay alive by drinking their urine and consuming cacti.  It is unsure is Mendez called a meeting with the men or if the walkers had a meeting amongst themselves and demanded Mendez to get their water nor is it known if the men pushed Mendez to go or if Mendez demanded money from the men however, Mendez instructed the men to wait for him for 5 hours in the desert while he went to buy water and get help. The men were struggling to stay well and after waiting the amount of time they were told and more, they realized that Mendez had run off with anything between $70 and $300 and left them to rot. This led the men to continue on their own northward.]]> 2021-04-02 16:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1378366672 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1426075728 In this chapter, Urrea explains the instance where the men saw a border patrol truck patrolling the desert however they are too weak to reach it, seeing that they only manages to walk ten miles in 12 hours. After this, we see the morning of Tuesday, May 22nd where the first couple of members of walkers begin to die. Many of the men were disoriented and they didn't realize that their group had broken down into multiple little groups. Urrea explains how a couple of men died and even went crazy because of the heat. Reymundo Jr. died in his fathers arms, one man attempted to bury himself into the sand and was barbecued, and another man removed all his clothes, folded them neatly, lied on his back with huis ankles crossed and died.]]> 2021-04-16 16:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1426075728 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1426076549 At the beginning of the chapter we see the struggle that Mendez and Lauro face after leaving the group behind. Aside from this, we see that much of the walkers group has began to die off and a small group of five leads the rest. As they approach the Berry Goldwater Bombing Range, they are spotted by Agent Mike F. At this moment, Mario approaches Mike F. to inform him about the rest of the men in the hills and within a couple of minutes, a huge rescue mission is called on. This miracle saved many of the mes lives as they were on the last stages of heat stokes. Many men are found alive however, more men are found dead and when it came to Lauro and Mendez, Mendez was still asleep under a bush but when they found them, Lauro was dead.]]> 2021-04-16 16:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1426076549 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1426079956 In this chapter we get the story of the men after they have been picked up by border patrol.  The race to the hospital begins as some of the men are in serious condition.  The author explains the economical situation that goes with immigrants.  It is common for immigrants to go into the hospitals to re-hydrate, catch a nap, eat some hospital food, then walk out but none of them were aware that it was causing hospitals to lose millions of dollars. Urrea continues by explaining the situations of the men and how they were feeling at the time and what they wanted to tell the police questioning them. They knew that they had to be careful with what they said because one wrong thing could have gotten them and their families hinted down back in Mexico. Even though they were separated, unable to create one single story, they all knew one thing for sure; they were not going to protect Mendez.]]> 2021-04-16 16:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1426079956 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1452431228 After the men are interrogated and Mendez is found to be the cause of the tragedy, Rita Vargas arrives to supervise the more interrogation which are to come for them. In this part of the chapter, we see that Mendez writes a letter apologizing to the living and the dead while attempting to prove his innocence. However, the letter did him no justice and a U.S. attorney convicts Mendez for recklessly deceiving and endangering the group. To conclude this chapter, Urrea talks about the dead's ride first and last ride in a helicopter as they are taken to be examined. he focuses on the peacefulness of the ride compared to the long journey which killed them.]]> 2021-04-23 16:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1452431228 dmliborio1001_2 https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1452434991 In part one of chapter 16, the author gives the story of the dead and Mendez after the hospital. We see that the 14 dead men are cleaned up and gotten ready for their ceremonies while the author notes that hundreds of dollars were spent to make it possible when Vargas asked, "What if somebody had simply invested that amount in their villages to begin with?" If so, the men could have stayed home because the government could have used the money to create new jobs to increase the value of the economy. Aside from this, Urrea explains how Mendez held himself together and didn't give up the names of his co-workers because he nderstand the consequences of his actions and the justice system in the US would not harm him physically. However, despite not saying anything about the incident, after he was told he could get life sentences or even the death penalty for his charges, he pleaded guilty to all charges and got at least 16 years.]]> 2021-04-23 16:06:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dmliborio1001_2/c89umts80ksi56bb/wish/1452434991