In the non-
work the author brings facts from several sides together to paint a
picture of how illegal immigration affects border crossers, border towns, the Border Patrol, the
Coroner's Office, and ultimately, the rest of us. The theme in this book is forgotten men,
victims who are caught in the crossfire of a brutal game of smuggling humans and drugs across
the southern US border. Theof the story occurs when the 26 men who set out from Mexicomany from
far south of the border, in Veracruzare caught in a zone called "the devil's highway"
for its history of killing those who try to cross it. Their struggle for survival and the demise
of the Yuma 14 (the 14 men who died that day in May 2001) is the heart of the story.
The author,, makes a point of giving each man a biography, of describing the things
each man carried, and of discussing their relationships and motivations for crossing. He does
this to emphasize that each of the crossers...
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