The Devils Highway

The Devils Highway, More than Just a Name.
The Devil’s Highway, by Luis Alberto Urrea, New York: Little, Brown, 2004. 220 Pages. Reviewed by Patricia Castillo. Luis Alberto Urrea is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, an American Book Award, a Western State Award, and a Colorado Book Award. He has received the Latino Literary Library Wall of Fame for this book and was one of the finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.
The book, The Devils Highway, gave me a very different perspective of what undocumented people coming from México have to go through and the struggles and barriers they face. Even though I had an idea of how and what undocumented people have to go through, after reading this book; Urrea, opened my eyes when

The Devils Highway it is not just a name of a book to get the attention of the reader into the book; but moreover, it is a very widespread desert in southern part of Arizona which is also known as El Desierto de Sonora, one of most dry, dangerous, and deceive areas in the United States and part of Mexico. El Desierto de Sonora is the most hazardous desert on the entire continent in which not a lot of people would go through; therefore, the very few people who challenge themselves and do make it alive have to go through some harsh condition. This desert has taken so many live away that our law enforcement has to think twice before they perform their patrol. The Devils Highway book centers the attention on an undocumented group of Mexican Immigrants who struggled in their journey to

For many of these border patrol officers the people in hopes for a better living who try and cross the borders are nonetheless but enemies. Many of the people who are said to help these immigrants cross the border who are referred to as “coyotes” only want the money and simply do not care about the life of these immigrants or if their life is in danger. There have been numerous of cases where Urrea explains that there have been findings of “toxic materials appear in jugs that look like drinking water. Humane Borders’ water stations are vandalized, the three-hundred-gallon tanks broken open so they run dry. Small groups of Mexicans are found tied and shot in the head” (Page 214). This book goes in great depth and truly gives the reader a clear understanding on what an undocumented immigrant goes through, although this is something we can only imagine but will never know what they actually go through as it is something one has to personally experience it in order to truly