Border Patrol In The Devil's Highway

In The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea, the idea that the individual is influenced by the goals and the perspectives of achieving a better life. The media along with the people in power manipulate the goals and perspectives of the individual leading to misunderstandings and speedy conclusions. The Devil’s Highway is about 28 immigrants who attempted to cross the border but instead of finding the land of opportunity, they came across a deadly desert. Luis Alberto Urrea starts giving more context and background information on the border patrol, specifically the unit that came across the Yuma 14. It is revealed that border patrol officers in general love their country and their jobs. Even though they are just doing their job they still get a lot of hate from the public and
The cars that the border patrol drive have been described has having an okay air conditioner and the ability to call backup for any serious situation. The immigrants had spotted “The Border Patrol! Their nemesis. They’d walked into hell trying to escape the Border Patrol, and now they were praying to get caught” (Urrea 14). The characterization that is being made by using the actions of the immigrants in which it can be seen that they start to value their lives over the journey that they have dictated so much time and hope. This all caused by the coyotes getting them lost in the desert and the way that a group of them lose complete faith in them so they started to head North themselves. Many of the immigrants reach their fate of death while a handful get salvation from the border patrol. It is stated that they “walked into hell trying to escape” but now as the reach the brink of death they start “praying to get caught”. A shift has been created by the immigrants in their point of view of the journey to the land of opportunity and of the border