Urrea

Luis Urreas book The Devils Highway gave me whole new prospective on the issue of immigration. Before reading the book I wasn’t aware of the hardship, that motivated these immigrants to want to leave Mexico. I realized that they it takes a lot for a person to decide to go into a desert and risk their entire life, just to make it to the United States. Things in their life must have been terrible, if they made it to the point of deciding to cross the border. They left behind everything they know, including their belongings, families, and they paid a hefty fine that included most of their lives earnings. It makes me not mad at the immigrants for wanting to come into the United States illegally, but mad at the situation. The money the U.S had to pay in the end, could have been put toward changing the conditions in their towns/villages. It’s ironic, the way that things turned out.