https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7 Made with mirth en-us 2022-02-04 16:38:14 UTC 2025-10-16 00:26:03 UTC hello@padlet.com mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2038323612 The devil's highway is a famous road where many undocumented people have tried to walk across to be able to make it to the United States. Most of these travel in groups but not everyone in the group makes it. Some got lost, left behind, and others die a very painful and slow death. Plus the weather in this desert makes it even more difficult. ]]> 2022-02-09 16:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2038323612 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2038326282 These men have now walked a great distance and are exhausted and dehydrated. And now questioning if they should stay on the road or if they should let Border Patrol find them. ]]> 2022-02-09 16:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2038326282 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2046628709 These agents that work for the Border Patrol are not really favorited because of what they have done. They are many stories were these agents have harassed and abused the captives. And that is when they leave the bodies out in the desert.]]> 2022-02-14 16:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2046628709 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2051307834 It is explained how border patrol know when people have walked on the Devils highway. They are able to find clues just by looking on the ground. But also talks about the horrible deaths that happened in the desert. Because of the extreme heat most of these people are unrecognizable. ]]> 2022-02-16 16:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2051307834 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2051309026 Many people in the state will leave and go to El Norte to be able to send money home. And in this chapter a coyote is introduced by the name of Don Moi.]]> 2022-02-16 16:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2051309026 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2051315361 This chapter was mostly about Don Moi's crew. Coyotes have so much control when it comes to the border crossing. Shows how everyone and everything connects to each other. ]]> 2022-02-16 16:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2051315361 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2053588094 The guides would earn a hundred dollars a head when they would lead a group cross the border. They never revealed their names and would also wear bad clothes so that they could blend in with the group crossing. As a business move the guides would leave the walkers to die.]]> 2022-02-17 16:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2053588094 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2059860009 This chapter shows the background of Jesus before he leads the Yuma 14/Wellton 26 onto the Devil's highway. Told how he was someone who grew up poor and had took a job. While in this job he met people that would take help into the life that would help smuggle people.]]> 2022-02-22 04:56:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2059860009 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2060969580 Jesus and Maradone have to take the devils highway because they had been caught by border patrol many times. Close to the border it can become very religious. Religion is used for others to try and covert but it also used to have hope that they will be able to cross. But there is also many places likes bars filled with drugs.]]> 2022-02-22 16:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2060969580 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2062928062 Mendez had drank too much and was still hungover in the morning.]]> 2022-02-23 16:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2062928062 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2068904226 The group that was set to cross are now walking into the Devils Highway. But border patrol had been tracking Mendez for days. And little things like lights start to scare him and begin to rear him off track. Even by the next morning they were not even close to their own track.]]> 2022-02-28 05:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2068904226 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2068908896 Because the group was off track they were technically lost. And to make it worse the temperature had started rising. And in this chapter goes to show that the heat will eventually be fatal for most of them in the coming hours and days.]]> 2022-02-28 05:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2068908896 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2073932674 I believe the author put this chapter saying a little about each person in the middle of the journey so that the reader could feel more emotion when it was time for the character to die. Also shows what each person was leaving behind when they decide to attempt to cross the border and their own reasoning for doing it.]]> 2022-03-02 16:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2073932674 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2073940520 Everyone suspects that he does not know where he is leading them but the group still continues to walk with him. He is now leading them in a zig zag pattern  ]]> 2022-03-02 16:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2073940520 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2076220561 Mendez and the walker have completely different stories of what really happened. Before Mendez took off, he took the walkers last bit of money saying that he would bring them back water. The group waited for them to come back but they never did. So the group decided to keep walking the same direction Mendez did in hope of salvation. Because they knew if they stayed it would be certain that they would die.]]> 2022-03-03 16:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2076220561 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2078242478 The group were not in the greatest shape and were extremely dehydrated but still tried to continue and walk. After a while they had the idea to light a fire. And they were able to and were in hope the someone would pass by and save them. But no one came and they all slowly started to die.]]> 2022-03-04 16:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2078242478 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2082065521 All the people that were left were in an extremely bad state but they continued to walk a total of forty miles. They all saw the freeway and to them, it mean to rest, water, food, and even la Migra. Slowly they all start to fall when their legs gave out. Mike F. had gone down and saw them. They helped get the men into the choppers.]]> 2022-03-07 16:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2082065521 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2086458547 The survivors went sent to the hospital but were still being held by la Mirga. The men were on the line of death. They had no food and water in them. The doctors even described the people as looking like they were mummified. And while being interrogated they began pointing the finger at Mendez.]]> 2022-03-09 16:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2086458547 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2088690489 There were officers in each of the rooms since they were all under arrest. An attorney wanted to take Mendez down. Saying that Mendez knew the exact condition he was going to put the people through. Mendez wrote a letter saying the opposite like he did not know and that it was not his intent to lead them to their death. The dead bodies were now on their way to Tucson in zipped bags and onto the loading docks.]]> 2022-03-10 16:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2088690489 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2090756958 Mendez would be facing trail for his actions. And even he thought that his life would be over. He tried to part the picture of him being innocent and helpful when he explained what was happening. He also tried to place the blame of la migra. While this was happening the bodies of the men were being sent home. Only one of the men had stayed in the hospital.]]> 2022-03-11 16:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2090756958 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2096224704 The men that survived were given the chance to stay in the USA. And were given the choice to be able to work in meat packaging if they wanted to. They offered this type of job so that the men never had to work in the hot sun ever again.

]]> 2022-03-15 15:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2096224704 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2098313451 Some didn't think the desert killed the immigrants but politics. That each side of the border has its trouble. And that it makes people do things they do not intend. Like Mendez. But also shows how much money immigrants cost the United States.]]> 2022-03-16 15:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2098313451 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2100328935 The author Luis Alberto Urrea in the part of the book talks about how everything has changed since the book. Like an example would be how the percentage in immigrants crossing has dropped.]]> 2022-03-17 15:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2100328935 mjdeleon1011_2 https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2102145932 Urrea talks about what it was like discussing with Don Moi. And also about a call were women were being held. Worked in a cannery and told they would be beheaded if steppeed out.]]> 2022-03-18 15:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mjdeleon1011_2/o8sbh73wq481ahf7/wish/2102145932