The Devils Highway
Jose Valdivia
The Devils Highway
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Have you ever wonder why they built borders? Or who built them? Or who prevents and controls illegals from crossing, and what they do to accomplish them from crossing? In the book, The Devils Highway, by Luis Alberto Urrea defines the effects the desert has to offer for the immigrant’s entrance. The Devils High Way is a measureless desert past Mexico and Sonora, which is one of the most isolated and driest deserts in the U.S. This is a desert which few people confront to cross through, some barley make it out alive. In the year of 2001 and the month of May, a group of undocumented Mexican walkers were left for death, stuck in the Devils Highway after walking for days in the wrong path, through the deserts and mountains, with only a few quantity of water. The undocumented citizenry coming from the Mexican border is extremely overpopulated and unending. The solution of the U.S. government was to build a wall in certain areas along the borders. The wall is not all along the borders but it is in sections, like urban areas where immigration is the most common. Due to these factors now a days Mexicans prefer to jump the border than going through the desert. “No matter where they entered, they had only to step over a drooping bit of wire fence or across an invisible line in the dust”. “TO USE IS PROHIBITED!” (Urrea 56-57). This sign is the only thing USA is doing to prevent immigrants from crossing but with this little warning we are we are putting these immigrants to their death. USA should comprehend that putting a border is just putting immigrants in danger. The border patrol represents the law enforcement and also the national security in the story because they try to prevent
The Devils Highway
Valdivia 1
Have you ever wonder why they built borders? Or who built them? Or who prevents and controls illegals from crossing, and what they do to accomplish them from crossing? In the book, The Devils Highway, by Luis Alberto Urrea defines the effects the desert has to offer for the immigrant’s entrance. The Devils High Way is a measureless desert past Mexico and Sonora, which is one of the most isolated and driest deserts in the U.S. This is a desert which few people confront to cross through, some barley make it out alive. In the year of 2001 and the month of May, a group of undocumented Mexican walkers were left for death, stuck in the Devils Highway after walking for days in the wrong path, through the deserts and mountains, with only a few quantity of water. The undocumented citizenry coming from the Mexican border is extremely overpopulated and unending. The solution of the U.S. government was to build a wall in certain areas along the borders. The wall is not all along the borders but it is in sections, like urban areas where immigration is the most common. Due to these factors now a days Mexicans prefer to jump the border than going through the desert. “No matter where they entered, they had only to step over a drooping bit of wire fence or across an invisible line in the dust”. “TO USE IS PROHIBITED!” (Urrea 56-57). This sign is the only thing USA is doing to prevent immigrants from crossing but with this little warning we are we are putting these immigrants to their death. USA should comprehend that putting a border is just putting immigrants in danger. The border patrol represents the law enforcement and also the national security in the story because they try to prevent