According to The Devils Highway, what factors pushed Wellton 26 into the most inhospitable parts of the US-Mexico border (the harsh Sonoran...

According
to the book The Devils Highway, the deserts geography is inhospitable. The
sun is scathing hot, and the main cause of human deaths is hyperthermia. The wildlife is mainly
nocturnal and consists of all kinds of poisonous things, such as rattlesnakes, scorpions,
tarantulas, and coral snakes. There are also few watering holes for travelers, who resort to
drinking their own urine for survival.

People brave the difficulties in the
desert in order to avoid arrests by the Border Patrol. The San Diego Border Patrol has big
floodlights with surveillance trucks at half-mile checkpoints along the border fence. Other
entry points into the United States have been closed off. For example, the western barrier is
cordoned off by armed feds who work in the state park. Thus, walkers and coyotes prefer to cross
into the United States by walking through the desert instead of jumping over the border fences.
The Wellton 26 walked the desert as they fled their Mexican homes. There were
economic...